Dr. Rothenberg speculated that the improvement in survival of pneumonia patients might be due to improved medical care.
In fact, M. pneumonia can be cultured from respiratory secretions even after the pneumonia patients are treated with effective antibiotics.
He doesn't want to name anyone, but says the pneumonia patient is doing fine.
The questions are zeroing on the pneumonia patient.
Febrile pneumonia patients have a better survival rate than those with normal or low temperatures.
On March 29, she was admitted to Jiangong Hospital as a pneumonia patient.
She was hospitalized as a pneumonia patient at the same hospital as her daughter.
All bacterial pneumonia patients should also get antibiotics within four hours of admission.
"A lot of community doctors were very concerned" about whether or not to give pneumonia patients steroids, he added.
SARS survivors typically spend far longer in the hospital than other pneumonia patients.
