title: Respiratory infections transmitted from animals.
abstract: The physician's approach to the differential diagnosis of obscure, atypical pneumonias has changed. The physician needs to expand the diagnostic search when confronted with a perplexing, progressive atypical pneumonia. Diseases examined in this article include anthrax, psittacosis, Q fever, tularemia, pasteurellosis, melioidosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and the plague.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Weinberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000881:Anthrax / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D002006:Brucellosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008554:Melioidosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D010326:Pasteurella Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D010930:Plague / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009956:Psittacosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D011778:Q Fever / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D012373:Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D014406:Tularemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission; D015047:Zoonoses