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Name the causative organism and symptoms of pneumonia?

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It is caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae.
They infect the alveoli of lungs, where the alveoli become filled with a fluid resulting in severe difficulty in breathing / respiration.
The symptoms include:
(i) fever, (ii) headache,
(iii) cough and (iv) chills.
In severe cases the lips and fingernails may turn greyish to bluish.
Infection is by (i) droplets from an infected person and (ii) sharing the contaminated articles
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