Infection

Mercer disease is a staph infection that is resistant to the penicillin family of antibiotics. Mercer is another name for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; or MRSA for short. The infection begins either in the skin or a mucus membrane. The longer it goes untreated the deeper the infection burrows. MRSA can even get into the blood and spread the infection to the entire body. MRSA is a man influenced bacteria. It gained the resistance to the penicillin family because of improper use of…

known bacteria that causes the infection. This bacteria irritates the airway causing it to swell. The swelling of the airway presents in an uncontrollable cough and difficult breathing. Each deep breath that is taken, it is said that you can hear a whooping sound; hence the name “whooping cough”. Pertussis only affects humans and can be found in people of all ages. Those less than a year old are severely affected by the infection. Signs and symptoms of the infection are: runny nose, fever,…

through out the body. (MedicineNet) One of the first symptoms a person will experience is pain. The worm causes an abnormal growth also known as a skin lesion. These skin lesions lead to bacterial infections causing the infected person to experience immense pain through out the site of infection. If the infection is occurring in the patient’s legs, then their joints will become locked and will sometimes disable the person’s legs permanently. Along with severe pain, fever and swelling are the…

bloodwork verified the diagnosis, the wound culture indicated a Streptococcus and Staphylococcus infection was found in the wound site, and Mr. Olfa is diabetic therefore his immune system is weakened. Streptococcus and Staphylococcus microbes are found in small amounts on the skin and nasal passageway of most people. The blood work results C-REACTION PROTEIN in the body indicate that an infection is causing large amounts of inflammation in the body. High levels of the sodium and BUN are…

inflammatory response (SIR) to infection. Children with septicemia diagnosed by fever, hard breathing, tachycardia, malaise, inability to eat or lethargy, but those with asymptomatic bacteraemia tend to appearance of no obvious signs of infection. Deaths happened as result of pediatric septicemia are likely to be greater in low-income settings. In hospital setting, the ratio of septic infections due to gram-negative bacteria (GNB) ranges between 30% and 80% where infections because of…

What is a Virus? Virus - A virus is a tiny organism that can reproduce inside the cells of an organism. Most viruses are microscopic they are only observable through an optical microscope. Viruses can infect all types of organisms ranging from plant to animals as well as bacteria and other archaea. There are around 5000 different types of viruses described at the current time, however, it is thought that there are millions different viruses of distinct types. Viruses are seen in every…

(WHO). As a result of prevalent health issues in more developed nations, NTDs are often overlooked and downgraded in the overall health importance scale. Neglected tropical diseases are often neglected due to their lack of relevance and breadth of infection. While highly prevalent in many underdeveloped portions of the world, they are largely unseen in more developed countries. This discrepancy pushes the diseases off our radar as we care for the most part about ourselves and the issues we may…

may be tested to rule out other causes of conjunctivitis. TREATMENT Viral conjunctivitis does not respond to medicines that kill germs (antibiotics). Treatment for viral conjunctivitis is aimed at stopping a bacterial infection from developing in addition to the viral infection. Treatment also aims to relieve your symptoms,such as itching. This may be done with with antihistamine drops or other eye medicines. HOME CARE INSTRUCTIONS • Apply medicines only as directed by your health care…

the foot. These HPV infections can be anywhere in the body but are not plantar. The virus is self-limiting but to decrease the duration and to reduce the symptoms and transmission, treatment is necessary. Genetics plays a major role in determining whether the disease is susceptible or not and about 7-10% of the US population are affected by plantar warts. Cause- Foot warts are epithelial tumors which cause infection by HPV types 1,2, 4, 60 or 63 but can also cause infection by other types like…

effective alternative to antibiotics. Phage is similar to antibiotics in the sense that it can destroy a bacterial infection but differs in the fact that the bacteria cannot develop resistance. As bacteria attempt to develop resistance to phage the phage counters by also evolving and mutating [5]. Another benefit of phage therapy is that once a phage has been applied to a bacterial infection it won’t stop until every single bacterium in the colony have been eliminated [5]. There is also an…