Friedlander's Pneumonia

Friedlander's pneumonia is an acute inflammation of the lungs caused by Friedlander's bacillus (Klebsiella pneumoniae). This is a typical hospital infection.

The causative agent of the disease is Friedlander's gram-negative bacillus, which belongs to the Enterobacteriaceae family. These bacteria are widespread in the environment and often colonize human mucous membranes.

Friedlander's pneumonia often develops in patients with weakened immune systems, the elderly, and in people who have been hospitalized for a long time. The disease is characterized by an acute onset with high fever, cough with purulent sputum, and shortness of breath. Auscultation reveals moist rales.

Diagnosis is based on the clinical picture, laboratory data (complete blood count, chest x-ray) and isolation of the pathogen from sputum or blood.

Treatment includes antibiotics, usually third generation cephalosporins. The prognosis with timely therapy is favorable. Complications rarely develop.

Friedlander's pneumonia

Friedlander (or German) pneumonia was described by the German pathologist Eduard Käthe Aysner (b. 1821), also known as Friedlander or Ledevigovaya. Pneumonia was discovered by Karl Friedrich Löffler, who eventually gave it its own name. However, it was later established that Eisler did not call this form of the disease pneumonia; instead, he used “pulmonary damage.”

A few cases of the disease (26 cases) were described back in the 19th century, but only in 2012 did medicine manage to uncover the origin of this disease. This became possible thanks to a study by a team of scientists from England, the USA, Brazil and Spain. Researchers have discovered that one of the main causes of the disease is a bacterium called Sutterella wadsworthensis.

The clinical manifestations of the disease are similar to the classical form of tuberculosis. Here are just a few of them: * dry cough resulting from irritation of the respiratory tract * general weakness (especially at the end of the incubation period), * hemoptysis from minor