Causes of Pneumonia
Cause of Pneumonia: Can be bacterial, viral, or fungal infections.
Cause of Pneumonia: Streptococcus pneumoniae causes thousands of cases of meningitis and pneumonia, and 7 million cases of ear infection in the United States each year.1
Underlying condition causes of Pneumonia: The list of possible underlying conditions (see also Misdiagnosis of underlying causes of Pneumonia) mentioned in various sources as possible causes of Pneumonia includes:
- Viral infection
- Bacterial infection
- Fungal infection
- Lung cancer - can cause recurrent pneumonia
- AIDS - can lead to recurring lung infections
- Plague
- Q Fever
Pneumonia as a complication: Other conditions that might have Pneumonia as a complication might be potential underlying causes of Pneumonia. The list of conditions listing Pneumonia as a complication in our database includes:
- Actinymycosis
- Acute Bronchitis
- Agranulocytosis
- Chemical pneumonia
- Chlamydia
- Common cold
- Corticobasal Degeneration
- Down Syndrome
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Flu
- Group A Streptococcal Infections
- Group B Streptococcal Infections
- Legionnaires' disease
- Listeriosis
- Measles
- Melioidosis
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Neutropenia
- Parainfluenza
- Persistent Vegetative State
- Pleurisy
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Psittacosis
- Q fever
- Respiratory syncytial virus
- SARS
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Sporotrichosis
- Staphylococcal infection
- Streptococcal Infections
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Upper Respiratory Infection
- Whooping Cough
Pneumonia as a symptom: Conditions listing Pneumonia as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Pneumonia. The list of conditions listing Pneumonia as a symptom in our database includes:
- Adenoviruses
- Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
- Chlamydia pneumoniae
- Chronic Granulomatous Disease
- Common Variable Immunodeficiency
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Drug-resistant Streptococcus Pneumoniae Disease
- Esophageal atresia
- Group B Streptococcal Infections
- HIV/AIDS
- Melioidosis
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae
- Parainfluenza
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
- Pneumonic plague
- Respiratory syncytial virus
- SARS
- SCID
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Toxocariasis
- X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia
Causes of Pneumonia: medical news summaries: The following medical news items are relevant to causes of Pneumonia:
- Man receives 192,000 pounds for throat cancer misdiagnosis
- Symptoms of old age may be similar to many other treatable conditions
Related information for causes of Pneumonia:
Further relevant information on causes of Pneumonia may be found
in the risk factors for Pneumonia
and underlying causes of Pneumonia.
Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Antimicrobial Resistance, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID
Last revision:
June 10, 2003
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