The 19 diseases involve as many associated pathogens, including viruses (for AIDS, Ebola fever, hepatitis A and B, measles, mumps, whooping cough, yellow fever) and bacteria (anthrax, botulism, legionellosis, leptospirosis, shigellosis, syphilis, toxic shock syndrome).
The criteria for CAP diagnosis were a typical infiltration change on chest X-ray films within 1 day of symptom occurrence and at least one clinical manifestation, such as cough, yellow and thick sputum, or high fever (>37.8°C), or at least 2 minor criteria, including tachypnea, dyspnea, pleural pain, chest pain, confusion or disorientation, lung consolidation, or WBC counts > 12000 cells/ μL.
Mpondo et al. conducted an ethnobotanical survey among the Douala communities and identified more than 100 genera which have been used in the treatment of diverse diseases like stomach ache, tooth ache, diabetes, cough, yellow fever, amoebic dysentery, anaemia, intestinal worms, fever and diarrhoea [ 32- 38].
However, now when she coughed, dark yellow mucus came up.
If a cough with yellow sputum production was observed in the absence of the alveolar opacities on the chest radiograph, the patients were diagnosed as having acute bronchitis or exacerbation of chronic bronchitis.
Herein we report the case of a 77 year-old- male who presented with a 6-week history of progressive dyspnea on exertion accompanied by productive cough of yellow sputum and intermittent hemoptysis.
A 56-year-old Chinese female gardener presented to the Shanghai Changzheng Hospital with fever, a cough producing yellow-white sputum and fatigue.
A 56-year-old Chinese female gardener with a 5-year history of type 2 diabetes presented at the Shanghai Changzheng Hospital with fever, a cough producing yellow-white sputum, and fatigue.
Months later, he's still coughing up weird yellow stuff.
