Klebsiella pneumonia

Klebsiella pneumonia
an acute type of bacterial pneumonia caused by infection with Klebsiella pneumoniae, usually lobar in type and often limited to the right upper lobe; characteristics include large amounts of inflammatory, sometimes bloody, mucoid exudates in the lung. Called also Friedlдnder p.

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