Talk:Atypical pneumonia
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I think there needs to be a way of distinguishing the microbiological classification of atypical pneumonia from the pathological classification of atypical pneumonia. Most pathology texts will define atypical pneumonia as an intersitial lung infiltrate in a patient who looks worse than their xray suggests typical causes of interstitial pneumonia are Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae. On the other hand, microbiologists classify atypical pneumonias as pneumonias acquired from unusual microbes e.g. Legionella pneumophila.
