Risk factors associated with HS bronchopneumonitis were oral–labial lesions, HS in the throat, and macroscopic bronchial lesions seen during bronchoscopy.
Air is conducted through smaller and smaller bronchioles for about 15-20 generations, and collectively they're known as conducting bronchioles, receiving O2 from bronchial arteries.
Occasionally in the sputum there might be curschmann spirals, which are spiral shaped mucus plugs or basically elongated mucous casts from small bronchi of people with bronchial asthma.
After the first three generations of bronchi, however, the airways become more narrow, called bronchioles - 'little bronchi', and these can stay open without the need for cartilage.
And scientists believe that the bacteria B. bronchiseptica, which infected hominids 2.5 million years ago, may have evolved into the bacteria that is now responsible for whooping cough.
So if we take a look at the lungs, you've got the trachea which branches off into the right and left bronchi and then continues to branch into thousands of bronchioles.