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Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pneumonia_alveolus.jpg Normal alveoli & pneumonia (WC)]. | Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pneumonia_alveolus.jpg Normal alveoli & pneumonia (WC)]. | ||
==Chronic infectious pneumonia== | |||
===General=== | |||
Common microorganisms:<ref name=Ref_PBoD8_711>{{Ref PBoD8|711}}</ref> | |||
*Nocardia. | |||
*Actinomyces. | |||
*Mycobacterium tuberculosis. | |||
*Atypical mycobacterium, e.g. Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare. | |||
*[[Histoplasmosis|Histoplasma capsulatum]]. | |||
*[[Coccidioidomycosis|Coccidioides immitis]]. | |||
*[[Blastomycosis|Blastomyces dermatitidis]]. | |||
Note: | |||
*All of the later ones are granulomatous. | |||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features: | |||
*Inflammation. | |||
*+/-[[Granuloma]]s. | |||
==Asthma== | ==Asthma== | ||