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Name the causative organism and symptoms of pneumonia?

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It is caused by streptococcus pnumoniae and Heampohilus influenzae.
They infect the alveoli of lungs,where the alveoli become filled with a fluid resulting in severe difficulty in breathing/respiration.
(i)Fever, (ii)Headache (iii)Cough and (iv)Chills In severe cases the lips and finger nails may turn greyish to bluish.
Infection is by (i)Droplets from an infected person and (iii)Sharing the contarminated articles.
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