From: DailyQuestion@...
Date: December 4, 2008 6:05:41 AM EST
To: glennskow@...
Subject: EMedHome Question of the Day

The EMedHome Question of the Day is:

Why are the atypical pneumonia pathogens referred to as atypical?

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The Answer is:

They are "atypical" in the sense that they are not detectable on Gram stain or cultivatable on standard bacteriologic media (Clin Inf Dis 2007; 44:S27).


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