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I think there needs to be a way of distinguishing the microbiological classification of atypical pneumonia from the pathological classification of atypical pneumonia. Most pathology texts will define atypical pneumonia as an intersitial lung infiltrate in a patient who looks worse than their xray suggests typical causes of interstitial pneumonia are Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae. On the other hand, microbiologists classify atypical pneumonias as pneumonias acquired from unusual microbes e.g. Legionella pneumophila.

Dr. Doof (talk) 00:25, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lingering effects?

I had "walking pneumonia" as a kid, and I remember hearing somewhere later on that a lingering effect of this condition could be reduced lung capacity. I always seemed to have less lung capacity than other people I knew, so I wonder if having this condition as a child might have resulted in this. 71.37.204.18 (talk) 23:08, 3 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Were Legionella, etc. even known then?

"At the time that atypical pneumonia was described first, organisms like Mycoplasma, Chlamydophila, and Legionella still were not recognized as bacteria and instead considered as viruses."

According to the article, this condition was first described in the 1930s. At that time, Legionella and Chlamydophila pneumoniae were not even known, let alone though of as viruses, surely?

Marchino61 (talk) 07:15, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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