Atypical Pneumonia

Atypical pneumonia (atypical means not typical) is the term used to describe chest disease resulting from infection by the agent mycoplasma pneumoniae, which causes epidemics every four years or so: it is spread in droplets of saliva and usually affects children and young adults.
 
 

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