Question

A 45-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a fever, productive cough, and diarrhea. Her chest X-ray shows a patchy unilobar infiltrate and her sodium is 127 mmol/L. What organism is most likely to be responsible for these symptoms?

Answer 1

Answer:

The organism responsible for these symptoms are Legionella pneumophilia and Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

Explanation:

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is avery small bacterium in the class Mollicutes. It is a human pathogen that causes the disease mycoplasma pneumonia  a form of typical bacterial pneumonia related to cold agglutinin disease.It spreads through the droplets of nose and throat in the infected persons when they cough and sneeze or any close contact with the infected person. The contagious period is probably fewer than 10 days and occasionally longer.

The antibiotics that is sold as ''Z Pack" is prescribed to treat bacterial infections such as pneumonia, bronchitis or ear infections.