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Antibiotic resistant bacteria are bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotics that at one time were able to kill them. It is a growing issue in today’s society especially since it is unknown how these microbes are able to mutate around a treatment that was once lethal to them. The consensus in the healthcare community is that these microbes will be an increasing threat until a solution is found. There is still discussion and controversy over the best method of identification and infection…

With healthcare being such a rapidly moving field it is important that we, as aspiring medical professionals, understand what is progressing in our profession. Within the blink of an eye healthcare changes; doctors, professors, phds, are coming up new theories, journals and studies daily. It is our job as current students in this field to do our best to further understand these journals studies, etc.and the writing that is involved in our field. Why you may ask? There are arguably an infinite…

As mentioned earlier, this experiement investigates “How effective are antimicrobial substances; natural compared to synthetic at preventing the bacterial growth of E.coli?” Despite the numerous trials conducted for accuracy, further experiment would need to be done in order to completely determine the effectiveness of both natural and synthetic antimicrobial substances. The hypothesis of this experiment stated that the synthetic antimicrobial substance used: Dettol was much more effective in…

Antibiotic Resistance Research Antibiotics have been used in the United States for many years which has led to a reduction in illness and death from infection and diseases. The over usage in farms has led to major antibiotic resistance and a public health threat. So famers need to be more careful with the way they use their antibiotics. If farmers do not use antibiotics more cautiously our public health is going to have a major health issue. Some of the things we should be concerned about is,…

In everyday life, people use antibacterial products to sanitize their homes. Some of the common active ingredients in household cleaning products are thymol, lactic acid, sodium hypochlorite, and ethanol (e.g. active ingredient in some hand sanitizers). The purpose of our experiment was to determine if antibacterial products lost effectiveness in killing common bacteria in everyday environments after repeated use. This is an important environmental issue because if these products are losing…

What is SIBO? SIBO is an acronym for “small intestinal bacterial overgrowth”. While bacterium is naturally present in the digestive tract, in a healthy body, the small intestine contains relatively low levels of bacteria. The large intestine contains approximately 10-100 billion bacterial organisms, and bacteria is supposed to be at its highest concentration in the colon. Compared to this number, the small intestine is relatively sterile (containing a mere 100 thousand organisms). However,…

Imagine you have just received your very first session of liposuction. You are smiling, wearing belly shirts and prouder than ever of your new, slim figure. But suddenly you wake up one morning and far from looking like the cover of People magazine, your stomach seems red, swollen and is warm to the touch near the sites where your liposuction occurred. Remembering the doctor said something about side effects, you shrug it off and assume it will go away on its own. As the days…

Introduction: Resistance to antibiotics is an ongoing concern of the pharmaceutical industry. The limited number of antibiotics in the market to treat Gram negative bacteria made their resistance an issue that is being addressed worldwide. The isolation of colistin from Bacillus polymyxa var. colistinus in Japan in 1949 and the introduction of colistin into the market in 1959 as its inactive prodrug colistin methanesulfonate (CMS) were significant milestones in the treatment of this type of…

ASSESMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF HOSPITAL SUPPORT STAFF ON INFECTION PREVENTION IN THIKA LEVEL 5 HOSPITAL 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 STUDY BACKGROUND Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) also referred to as Nosocomial infections are those infections occurring in a patient during the process of care in a hospital or any other health care facility that was not manifesting or incubating at the time of admission (Nejad, Allegranzi, Syed, Ellis & Pittet, 2011). Nosocomial Infections are not limited to…

Ever since the begging of time the medical practice has been in a fight with infections and disease control. From the early era of hospitals patients were at times in the same bed as another patient, thus spreading disease from one to another. A Hungarian obestritician by the name of Ignaz Semmelweis found and adovacted on the importance of hand washing. However, it was not until a physician by the name of Joseph Lister who created a spray to use while conducting surgery, thus being…