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Possible Causes For Pleural Effusion - Causes: Infectious Disorders (Specific Agent)
- Trauma Causes (1)
- Electromagnetic, Physics, trauma, Radiation Causes (1)
- Iatrogenic, Self Induced Disorders (2)
- Infectious Disorders (Specific Agent) (39)
- Infected organ, Abscesses (7)
- Granulomatous, Inflammatory Disorders (4)
- Neoplastic Disorders (31)
- Allergic, Collagen, Auto-Immune Disorders (9)
- Metabolic, Storage Disorders (1)
- Biochemical Disorders (1)
- Congenital, Developmental Disorders (2)
- Anatomic, Foreign Body, Structural Disorders (11)
- Arteriosclerotic, Vascular, Venous Disorders (2)
- Vegetative, Autonomic, Endocrine Disorders (2)
- Reference to Organ System (10)
- Pathophysiologic (1)
- Drugs (2)
- Poisoning (Specific Agent) (3)
- Organ Poisoning (Intoxication) (1)
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- Infectious Disorders (Specific Agent):
Fungal diseases
Pneumonia, bacterial
Pneumonia, viral
Pneumonia/Bronchopneumonia
Pneumonia, acute lobar
Pneumonia, pneumococcal
Pneumonia, mycoplasma
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary anthrax
Amebiasis, pulmonary/abscess
Blastomycosis, disseminated
Cryptococcosis
Hydatid cyst, lung
Legionaires disease
Melioidosis
Mycoplasma/Eaton agent disease
Picchini's polyserositis/trypanosome
Pneumonia, staphylococcal
Actinomycosis, thoracic
Amebic abscess, liver
Blastomycosis
Blastomycosis, pulmonary, chronic
Coccidioidomycosis
Coccidioidomycosis, pulmonary, chronic
Histoplasmosis
Histoplasmosis, pulmonary
Mycobacterium/fortuitum/ulcerans/others
Paragonimiasis
Parasitic lung infection
Pleurisy, tuberculous
Pleurisy, viral
Pneumonia, cryptococcal
Psittacosis/ornithosis
Q fever
Tuberculosis pulmonary
Tuberculosis, cavitary pulmonary
Whipples disease
Malaria
Tularemia pneumonia