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The cause of bronchopneumonia is an infection.

In children, causative agents of bronchopneumonia are most often viruses: influenza and parainfluenza, adenoviruses, coronoviruses, herpes, enteroviruses, rhinoviruses. Young people aged 20-35 are infected with mycoplasmas and chlamydia. The cause of pathology in adults is usually bacteria - streptococci and staphylococci. Elderly people and cancer patients are mainly affected by fungal infections - candida and aspergillus.

Dental

The human body is infected with pathogenic biological agents of various families, genera and species. This is a conditional etiological classification of the disease, taking into account the age category of patients.

Mental Health

Bronchopneumonia, depending on the conditions of occurrence and the type of pathogen, is divided into two large groups - community-acquired or household and hospital or nosocomial. The causative agents of community-acquired bronchopneumonia are pneumococci in 80% of cases, as well as hemophils, mycoplasmas, chlamydia, legionella, moraxella, Klebsiella, some enterobacteria, coccal microflora.