Advancements in Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases

Lung infections

When a virus or bacteria that causes sickness damages and inflames the lungs, it is said to have a lung infection. This occurs as immune cells rush to the lungs' airways or lung tissue to battle the infection.

Viral, bacterial, fungal, parasitic, or fungal infections of the lungs are possible (though this is rare in the United States). There are many types of microbes that can cause lung infections. For instance, bacterial pneumonia might result from viral bronchitis.