Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

risk for diseases that have evolved to resist antibiotics, making them hard to treat. Prisons in the U.S. have become amplifiers to drug resistant diseases such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, venereal infections, and tuberculosis. Antibiotic resistant…

The bacteria could possibly be present include Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, and Clostridium perfringens (Skin and Wound Cultures n.d.). The test results are interpreted as qualitative, semi quantitative, and quantitative (Skin and Wound Cultures: Healthwise Medical Information on eMedicineHealth. n.d.)…

2000s, antibiotics are considered a major public health threat. Quite often, non-therapeutic use of antibiotics, especially the use of inadequate amounts of antibiotics in agriculture allows bacteria to acquire resistance easily and to transmit resistant strains to humans. Antibiotics are used in animals therapeutically to treat illness, prophylactically to control disease, and to enhance animal growth in livestock (Raymond, 2013, 2). The drugs that are used, and more importantly, the way in…

Naturally, we have gone to the doctors when we are feeling sick, then come out with a prescription for an antibiotic. But have you ever question that you should be taking that antibiotic. antibiotics are one of the most overly prescribed medications in the United States. They may actually cause more harm than good. So what exactly are antibiotics, how can they be helpful when used correctly, but at the same time cause much harm to us by creating antibiotic resistance. So antibiotics are…

acute care setting, phase one. According to HHS, HAIs in phase one comprise of surgical site infections, central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated events, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and CDIs. Phases two and three emphasis expansion efforts into both outpatient and long-term care facilities. In 2008, the CDC in phase one began prevention and implementation efforts that were evidence-based…

types of pathogens capable of causing healthcare acquired infections. Gram-negative bacteria are known for causing infections in the bloodstream, pneumonia, wound infections, surgical site infections, and even meningitis. Gram-negative bacteria are resistant to most antibiotics which is what makes them so difficult to treat.…

infection when receiving medical care for something else. Common types of healthcare-associated infections include: Bloodstream infections from IV lines. Bacterial infections that do not respond to usual antibiotics, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Urinary tract infections from urinary catheters. Surgical wound infections.…

millions. Antibiotics are used to treat infections that are caused by thousands of different bacteria, and have saved billions of lives since penicillin was created in 1940 by Alexander Fleming (Daniel, 1987). “The current world-wide increase in resistant bacteria and, simultaneously, the downward trend in the development of new antibiotics have serious implications.” (Cars & Nordberg). Whether it be strep throat, pneumonia, or tuberculosis antibiotics have dramatically lowered the mortality…

Burkhalter, E. (2014, January 25). FDA 's new policy on animal antibiotic use draws scrutiny from farmers, advocates and industry. Anniston Star, The (AL). [popular] This article is from an Alabama Newspaper and discusses the effects of regulating antibiotics in the poultry and cattle industry. I plan on using this article because it provides quotes from experts in the cattle and poultry production industry. Experts in the cattle and poultry industry worry “the changing of the way farmers…

but rather, something much scarier. They are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are unable to be killed by one of the most important aspects of modern health. Not only are these invisible microbes just as deadly and disastrous as a hostile alien race or an environmental catastrophe, but they are also a reality, already affecting thousands of…