Mycoplasma Pneumoniae

Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes epidemics every four years or so: it is spread in droplets of saliva and usually affects young adults. Chlamydia species can cause pneumonia - chlamydia psittaci is caught from birds (classically from sick parrots) or sheep - while other chlamydia species are spread person-to-person. Pneumocystis carnii does not usually cause pneumonia, but does in patients who are immunocompromised as a result of infection with HIV.
 
 
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