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Bronchopneumonia or bronchial pneumonia or Bronchogenic pneumonia (not to be confused with lobar pneumonia) is the acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles. It is a type of pneumonia characterized by multiple foci of isolated acute consolidation affecting one or more pulmonary lobules.It is one of two types of bacterial pneumonia as classified by gross anatomic distribution of consolidation (solidification) the other being lobar pneumonia.