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The phrase "a pneumonia" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly because "pneumonia" is an uncountable noun and should not be preceded by the article "a."
Example: "She was diagnosed with pneumonia after her persistent cough worsened."
Alternatives: "pneumonia" or "the pneumonia".
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His Uncle Thomas Sr .died from a pneumonia.
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.
This is an acute lung problem like a pneumonia, with death resulting from respiratory collapse.
"It sounds like a pneumonia," he might say, or "the wet rales of congestive heart failure".
It's a pneumonia, a chest infection caused by a bacteria called legionella pneumophilia.
When he does sleep, he has nightmares that he is still in a pneumonia ward.
The emergency-department doctors started the boy on two antibiotics for what they thought was probably a pneumonia.
"They immediately sent out an expert team to investigate it, deciding it was a pneumonia of previously unknown cause".
In another scenario, a woman might come in with a pneumonia during the week, and as part of her treatment require a tube to help with feeding.
Doctors sliding a breathing tube into a pneumonia patient may wear three at once, because the patient may cough or vomit, and changing a mask is dangerous.
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