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Pneumonia is an infection of the alveoli, distal airways and interstitium of the lung. The Infectious Disease Society of America/American Thoracic Society (IDS/ATS) consensus guidelines have established diagnostic and treatment recommendations for patients with community-acquired pneumonia. When treatment ­failures occur the physician must think outside these guidelines and reevaluate the patient for causes such as rare or atypical organisms, an impaired host immune response, or noninfectious causes of pneumonitis.

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Acknowledgment

We gratefully thank Mark E. Costaldi, MD, Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, for providing the histology images.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals, Richmond Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Leah Chernin D.O. & David Swender D.O.

  2. Allergy/Immunology Associates, Inc, 1611 South Green Road, Suite 231, 44121, South Euclid, OH, USA

    Haig Tcheurekdjian M.D.

  3. Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Haig Tcheurekdjian M.D.

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Correspondence to Haig Tcheurekdjian M.D. .

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 812 Pollard Rd. Suite #5, Los Gatos, 95032, California, USA

    Massoud Mahmoudi

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Chernin, L., Swender, D., Tcheurekdjian, H. (2012). Pneumonia. In: Mahmoudi, M. (eds) Challenging Cases in Pulmonology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7098-5_7

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