Bronchopneumonia or bronchial pneumonia (also known as lobular pneumonia) is a type of pneumonia characterized by multiple foci of isolated, acute consolidation, affecting one or more pulmonary lobes.
It is one of two types of bacterial pneumonia as classified by gross anatomic distribution of consolidation (solidification), the other being lobar pneumonia.
Bronchopneumonia is less likely than lobar pneumonia to be associated with Streptococcus.
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