Bacteremia

patient comes, I can proceed the treatment knowing that they will be treated safely. Good oral hygiene is extremely important for at-risk of developing infective endocarditis patients. Their periodontal health status may promote the development of bacteremias and therefore oral health should be closely monitored to maintain sound teeth. Primary preventive measures such as oral hygiene instruction is critical for patient 's daily home care practices. During the treatment, I will be evaluating…

Listeriosis during pregnancy often occurs during the third trimester when cell mediated immunity is at its lowest. Fever, muscle pain, joint pain, back pain, and headache are classic symptoms of bacteremia. The infection could be mild and self-limited, but L. monocytogenes can also proliferate in the placenta, and cross the placenta resulting in possible abortion, stillbirth, and intrauterine infection. Preterm labor and/or delivery is common. Neonates…

Definition and Causes of Short Bowel Syndrome The patient in this case study was immunocompromised due to Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) which predisposed her to discitis infection. SBS is a disorder that hinders the absorption of nutrients and fluids usually after extensive small intestine resection (Tee, Wallis, & Gabe, 2011). An average person’s small intestine is 600cm long (Sundaram, Koutkia, & Apovian, 2002). In SBS, the small bowel has been shortened at least 70 percent (Sundaram et al.,…

When this virulence factor evades the host's immune response to vaccines, the bacteria are given the opportunity to go ahead and contaminate the human bloodstream (bacteremia) which leads to infections such as pneumonia and even other diseases as otitis media and meningitis as mentioned earlier.2 As a result of the virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria, treatment of the diseases caused by Streptococcus…

A urinary catheter is an indwelling tube that runs through the urethra and into the bladder allowing for the passive drainage of urine from the bladder. Indwelling urinary catheters put patients at risk for infections when bacteria travel up the tubing and into the bladder (Carter, et.al, 2014). The use of indwelling urinary catheters in hospitalized patients presents an increased risk of the development of complications, including catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). With regard…

Some of these illnesses are bacteremia, toxic shock syndrome, sepsis, and endocarditis (Wang & Muir, 2016). Approximately one-third of the human population is colonized by S. aureus, and another one-third is intermittently colonized with the bacteria (Thomer et al., 2015). Over one million skin and soft tissue infections occur annually in the United States due to S. aureus, and these infections result in approximately 500,000 hospitalizations, over 90,000 cases of bacteremia, and over 30,000…

E. faecalis is a gram positive bacterium, which is among the most antibiotic resistant bacteria. Containing many natural antibiotic resistances, it has acquired immunities transferred in r-plasmids among unrestrained bacteria. Since over a quarter of its genome is exogenously attained, this leads to its resistance to the strongest antibiotics or sometimes all antibiotics. This is a large concern in hospital environments and with people with low immune systems since they are more susceptible to…

that the nitrate color was red and the citric agar turned blue while we identified our unknown bacterium as Enterobacter cloacae, a clinically gram negative, facultative-anaerobic, rod shaped and motile bacterium. E. cloacae infections can include bacteremia, lower respiratory tract infections, skin and soft-tissue infections, urinary tract infections (UTIs), endocarditis, intra-abdominal infections, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, CNS infections, and ophthalmic infections. Enterobacter…

complicated by bacteremia)” (Meddings et al., 2013, p.1). It is evident by the statistics presented, catheter-associated urinary tract infections remain a problem…

Neonatal sepsis is defined as clinical syndrome in an infant 28 days of life or younger,manifested by systemic signs of infection and isolation of a bacterial pathogen from the bloodstream (Edwards ms and baker cj 2004). Diagnosis and management of sepsis are agreat challenge facing neonatologists in nicus.clinical diagnosi of presentation is difficult due to non specific signs and symptoms . In addition,laboratory diagnosis is time consuming.this matter necessitates the initiation of empirical…