Pneumonia

Pneumonia is quite the serious illness, at least, it can be. As such, it's prudent for everyone to know about the disease as much as they can. Here are more facts about pneumonia that everyone should know. Number Eight: Speech-Language Pathologists Are Innaccurate Speech-language pathologists who evaluate clients with the disease fail to identify nearly half of patients who have the illness. This is due to something known as silent symptoms. Number Seven: Aspirated Substances of Pneumonia…

Explanation of a microbiological algorithm for Hospital-acquired and Ventilator associated pneumonia. This algorithm is intended to deal with the microbiological aspects of hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia. The severity of the illness is important in determining when to collect the diagnostic samples and which antimicrobials to administer due to which organisms are present. There are many prognostic scoring systems used to suggest the severity of the disease in patients…

common diagnostic specimen to detect pneumonia, there are still many other respiratory specimens that could be utilised (van’t Wout, 1989), such as a pleural fluid culture. Pleural fluid is taken from a space between two layers of the lung, referred to as the pleural. This fluid is removed via a procedure called thoracentesis. This technique is applied to understand the reason for fluid build-up within the chest cavity, thus, can aid in the diagnosis of pneumonia. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)…

virus (RSV), coronavirus, and adenovirus (Buttaro, Trybulski, Bailey, & Sandberg-Cook, 2013). Pneumonia on the other hand is considered as a lung infection caused mainly…

are gastroenteritis, pneumonia, and anoxia. Gastroenteritis, also known as the stomach flu, had a large death rate in the 1970s due to the few treatment options available in the 1970s. This disease is an infection of the stomach and attacks both the stomach and intestines. Gastroenteritis…

Pathophysiology of pneumonia can vary depending on the offending organism, some viruses may cause direct injury or even cell death, although many organisms may only trigger an inflammatory in the lungs. Increase in blood flow may be triggered by a vascular reaction, and regulation of vascular permeability. In a medical situation such as pneumonia, the neutrophils are activated to help fight the infection by digesting microorganisms…

that my unknown organism was Klebsiella pneumoniae. K. pneumonia produced a negative-rod gram stain. My organism, K. pneumoniae, tested positive for the three main carbohydrates, glucose, lactose, and sucrose. After running tests on these carbohydrates, a pH indicator color change from red to yellow signified a positive result, while remaining red, signified a negative result (Lab). All three tubes turned yellow, which told me that K. pneumonia ferments glucose (w/ average gas), lactose (w/ less…

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, klebsiella pneumonia , Escherichia coli ( E.coli), Enterococcus, Burkholderia, Enterobacter, Proteus, coagulase negative staphylococci ( S.epidermidis, S. saprophytic). Although most of gram–ve bacilli can’t remain in dry surfaces and sensitive to common disinfectant, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-baumannii complex, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumonia considered as the most common bacterial pathogens of hospital…

encountering if for millennia, pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae remains one of the deadliest microbiological threats facing humanity today. S. pneumoniae is a Gram positive, diplococcus bacteria with ore than 90 serotypes1. Along with pneumococcus pneumonia, S. pneumonia can cause meningitis, sepsis, bacteremia, and otitis media1,2. It is the leading cause of community acquired pneumonia, as well as fatal respiratory infections globally, across all age ranges; severe pneumonia…

huge difference between genders for C. pneumoniae organism to be present. Chlamydia pnomoniae is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is one of the main causes in lung infections. Some lung infection such as pneumonia pharyngitis, bronchitis, coronary artery disease and atypical pneumonia. This bacterium damages the lining of the respiratory tract. History of the virus (chapter 1) In the United states there are about 300,000 people who are affected by the bacterium each year. Chlamydia…