Hey, what's up guys, and welcome to the fifth episode of the Physician Assistant Boards.com

podcast. Today we're going to be speaking a little bit about community acquired pneumonia.

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appreciate that all right? All right so let's get down to the pneumonia. So this is an acute infection of the pulmonary parenkema,

and according to the World Health Organization,

it's the third most common cause of death worldwide.

Now, the patient must have acquired this in the community, hence the name, or at most 48 hours after hospitalization.

Because the infection has reached the lower respiratory tract, this implies that either our host defenses were down, a more virulent

than normal pathogen presented itself, or there was an overwhelming amount of

pathogens present. Now these pathogens are divided into two groups. We can divide them

into typical pathogens and atypical pathogens. The typical pathogens include strep,

H influenza, staphoreus, groupa strep, and more excella.

The atypical pathogens include mycoplasma, Legionella, Klimidia, which is now called Klimidophila. These are typical due to the differing

presentation as well as their inability to grow on a standard culture. The

most common ideology worldwide is by far streptococcus pneumonia.

Now this is going to be followed by viruses, notably influenza,

mycoplasma, and then lead genella.

Now there have been multiple studies done an attempt to isolate these pathogens and in about 50%

a pathogen will not be identified regardless of the tests that are employed.

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