Argument
To initiate an argument that stands up for Staphylococcus aureus in being a helpful or good bacterium is something I just cannot do. I can argue that the bacteria S. aureus is a terrible and very communicable bacterium, that I can do! I, myself fought S. aureus in one of the worst places possible, my buttock! I know exactly how I caught it as well, I work in the medical field. Though not in a hospital where S. aureus is mostly contracted from hospital to patients, a clinic works well too. We had a patient come in with a massive infection under her left breast and I wore gloves, washed my hands and sanitized the room and sterilized the equipment, but that sneaky gram positive, coccus shaped bacterium just was able to grab onto my skin. I go to the gym and USE to place my phone between my pant and hip and well when you run you sweat so the bacteria ran into a hair follicle and well a folliculitis formed. Easy as that, 24 hours later I was sitting in the doctor’s office getting a cefazolin 1 gram deep intramuscular injection in my buttock and placed on an oral antibiotic cephalexin 500 mg four times a day for two weeks. Of course, a culture and sensitivity test was performed a week later due to the local …show more content…
aureus if a very harmful bacterium that can create cellulitis, which is the subcutaneous tissue and skin inflamed. The skin becomes warm to the touch, red, painful and very swollen. This condition if untreated can lead to endocarditis or septicemia, which both can be life-threatening. A fun fact is that staph aureus is found in one-quarter of people and can be asymptomatic carries in the nasal cavity. Also, those carriers can easily spread the bacterium to other people through direct contact even though the carrier has no symptoms of infection. Ways to prevent the spread of S. aureus is hygiene, handwashing with hot soapy water and using hand sanitizer. Keep fingers and hands out of membranes after handling possibly contaminated
To initiate an argument that stands up for Staphylococcus aureus in being a helpful or good bacterium is something I just cannot do. I can argue that the bacteria S. aureus is a terrible and very communicable bacterium, that I can do! I, myself fought S. aureus in one of the worst places possible, my buttock! I know exactly how I caught it as well, I work in the medical field. Though not in a hospital where S. aureus is mostly contracted from hospital to patients, a clinic works well too. We had a patient come in with a massive infection under her left breast and I wore gloves, washed my hands and sanitized the room and sterilized the equipment, but that sneaky gram positive, coccus shaped bacterium just was able to grab onto my skin. I go to the gym and USE to place my phone between my pant and hip and well when you run you sweat so the bacteria ran into a hair follicle and well a folliculitis formed. Easy as that, 24 hours later I was sitting in the doctor’s office getting a cefazolin 1 gram deep intramuscular injection in my buttock and placed on an oral antibiotic cephalexin 500 mg four times a day for two weeks. Of course, a culture and sensitivity test was performed a week later due to the local …show more content…
aureus if a very harmful bacterium that can create cellulitis, which is the subcutaneous tissue and skin inflamed. The skin becomes warm to the touch, red, painful and very swollen. This condition if untreated can lead to endocarditis or septicemia, which both can be life-threatening. A fun fact is that staph aureus is found in one-quarter of people and can be asymptomatic carries in the nasal cavity. Also, those carriers can easily spread the bacterium to other people through direct contact even though the carrier has no symptoms of infection. Ways to prevent the spread of S. aureus is hygiene, handwashing with hot soapy water and using hand sanitizer. Keep fingers and hands out of membranes after handling possibly contaminated