Double lower lung infection will not be contagious

Double lower lung infection is not infectious, need to combine the specific condition of the patient. Double lower lung infection is actually an imaging description, most of the patients may be pneumonia, if pneumonia, most patients will be bacterial infection. For bacterial pneumonia, normal is not infectious, but sometimes viral infection, mycoplasma, chlamydia infection, can also cause pneumonia. In these cases, there is a certain degree of infectivity. In addition, a double lower lung infection may also be tuberculosis. A double lower lung infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is not normally called pneumonia, but tuberculosis. Although tuberculosis is mostly distributed in the upper lungs, it may also be distributed in both lower lungs in the elderly, immunocompromised patients or children. If the double lower lung infection is tuberculosis, the patient is also infectious.