This study was carried out at the Razi Institute during 2005-2006 with inspecting 12168 lung tissue of slaughtered sheep and goats at the Ziaran Abattoir. Pneumonia were diagnosed in 282 cases and the affected lung tissue was collected and transferred to the Bacteriology and Pathology Departments for isolating of Pasteurella spp. and interpretation of histopathologic lesions. Pasteurella mult...

Bacterial toxins can produce a pneumonia similar to that caused by viruses, and the presence of a toxin-producing bacterium in the lungs may account for some of the interstitial bronchopneumonias observed in diseases other than those caused by viruses.

On the basis of studies sympathetic ganglia in croupic pneumonia, Spanish flu and catarrhal bronchopneumonia, author concludes that pneumonia vascular changes are more significant than other pulmonary inflammations, while bronchopneumonia nerve apparatus is particularly affected.

The association between ABO blood groups and certain diseases of the upper intestinal tract, peptic ulcer, gastric carinoma, and pernicious anaemia, is now well established, but this is not true for any of the other associations noted, except perhaps diabetes. The evidence has recently been summarized by Roberts (1957). Of the other associations that have been reported, the one which, if true, ...

The information which we possess in regard to bronchopneu-monia chiefly concerns that disease as it is seen either in young children or in adults of advanced years. There is little information regarding the clinical, roentgenographic, and laboratory findings of this disease as it occurs in adolescents. Lord3 considers that primary bronchopneumonia is a disease usually seen in patients younger t...