流感患者发生的肺炎可由流感病毒及/或继发性细菌侵袭所致。由于肺炎的治疗取决于致病的病原体,因此对流感感染或流感流行期间发生肺浸润的每个患者必须作仔细的评价。诊断流感的方法是从鼻咽分泌物、呼吸道组织标本中分离到流感病毒,及/或血清抗体滴度增高。上述方法均需相当长的时间才能确定诊断,因而无助于 Pneumonia in a flu patient can be caused by an influenza virus and / or secondary bacterial attack. Since the treatment of pneumonia depends on the causative pathogen, every patient who has pulmonary infiltrates during or after an influenza pandemic must be carefully evaluated. Flu is diagnosed by isolating influenza virus from nasopharyngeal secretions, respiratory tissue samples, and / or increasing serum antibody titers. The above method takes a considerable amount of time to confirm the diagnosis and therefore does not help