Discussion
Which one of the following bacterial species can cause atypical pneumonia?
Answer: A
Atypical pneumonia is caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae.
'Atypical' pneumonia is the milder, walking pneumonia with a dry cough, patchy interstitial changes on X-ray and no response to beta-lactams. It is caused by organisms that lack a typical cell wall or live inside cells: Chlamydia (Chlamydophila) pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Legionella.
Streptococcus pneumoniae, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae cause typical bacterial (lobar or bronchial) pneumonia.
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