Leukemia patients also sometimes came down with lobar pneumonia.
The official cause of death was lobar pneumonia, but Parker had simply worn out.
Prontosil was also used to treat other diseases, including lobar pneumonia.
Dr. A. L. Mosley, an assistant medical examiner for Maricopa County who performed the autopsy on Heinemann, determined that the cause of death was bilateral lobar pneumonia.
Lobar pneumonia could be treated with antiserum, an injection of rabbit antibodies against the pneumococcus, if the intern identified the subtype correctly.
In 1930 Dubos isolated from a soil microorganism an enzyme that could decompose part of the bacillum that causes lobar pneumonia in humans.
The District of Columbia medical examiner's office said Mr. Channell died of complications from lobar pneumonia from the accident, in which he suffered a fractured skull and a broken right leg.
The official cause of death was lobar pneumonia and sepsis, secondary to diabetes and hypertension — acute lung and blood infections, that can attack patients on ventilators, but whose origins in this case are unknown, and chronic conditions that weaken the system.
For example, some cocci are found mainly in pairs, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, a pneumococcus that causes bacterial lobar pneumonia, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a gonococcus that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea.
The pneumococcus is the most common cause of lobar pneumonia, the disease in which one or more lobes, or segments, of the lung become solid and airless as a result of inflammation.
