Staphylococcus

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a well-known example of a bacterium that is resistant to a number of antibiotics and is the main cause of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) all across the EU. EU funds are already spent in several interventions aimed at improving…

Proper sanitization is one of, if not the, most important aspect of working in the medical field. Nurses, doctors, technicians, or any medical personnel, come in contact with many patients in just a single day. Each patient can have a myriad of different pathogens that can easily contaminate the hospital. Hand hygiene is an easy solution that highly decreases the risk of cross-contamination to other surfaces, coworkers, and even patients. These standards of care, regarding sanitization, are…

Taking antibiotics in a flawed manner could lead to antibiotic resistance . It occurs when bacterias adapt ways: or change, in order to survive from an antibiotic drug (Antibiotic Resistance 2014). An example of this situation is how a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (bacteria) developed a resistant to an antibiotic called methicillin (MRSA Infection 2015). As a result, the methicillin-resistant bacteria that has infected a patient(for example) could no longer be treated with that particular…

“More people now die each year of hospital acquired infections than of AIDS, traffic accidents, and the flu combined,” (Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, 2014). Many people believe that healthcare facilities are regularly disinfected, that surfaces and equipment are always sterilized, and that the staff is demanded by law to use hygienic methods all the time, but that may not be the case. The majority of the time, healthcare-associated infections are transmitted from patient to…

extract of Callistemon viminalis, the standard strains of these bacteria, which are common in urinary tract infections, have been prepared in a lyophilized way in the microbiology laboratory of Fasa University of Medical Sciences: Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923, Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC 29212, S.saprophyticus ATCC 15305, Enterococcus fecalis ATCC 29212, Proteus vulgaris PTCC 1079, Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 10031, Escherichia coli ATCC 25922. The leaves of C. viminalis were collected…

“Asian and Hispanic patients are at higher risk for postoperative sepsis, and African American patients have two times the risk of developing hospital- acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection compared with white patients” (Edmiston & Spencer, 2014). There are many reasons why SSIs happen, most of which are preventable. “Factors that contribute to disparities in health care include language barriers, unconscious bias…

1. Describe what may occur if hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity occur as a result of drug use. Hepatotoxicity is when the liver detoxifies and metabolizes foreign chemicals in the blood. It can be damaged by drugs or their metabolic products. If liver cells are injured, enzymatic abnormalities usually occur which is when fatty liver deposits form, hepatitis occurs, and in the worst cases liver failure can result. Nephrotoxicity occurs when nephron tubules and/or filtration abilities of the…

deaths in a year. In this day and age of advanced technology and medical knowledge, this is a frightening statistic. Part of the problem can be contributed to the continued overuse of antibiotics; some infections, such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are the result of this. In facilities that rely heavily on antiseptics, aseptic techniques, and technology, nosocomial infections are an unacceptable occurrence and cost plaguing our health care system. “According to the…

Hospital Acquired Infection Hospital acquired infections (nosocomial infection) are infections that develop within a hospital or are produced by microorganism acquired during hospitalization. HAI’s are common in intensive care units (ICU’s). The incidence and prevalence of nosocomial infection in ICUs is much greater than in the general in-patient population of hospital. The rates and types of hospital acquired infection, the distribution of microorganism that cause the infection and the…

through direct or indirect contact (Lawton, 2014). Treatment may involve topic or oral antibiotics if skin cleansing alone does not resolve the disease (Watkins, 2013). Impetigo Pathophysiology Impetigo is superficial skin infection “caused by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) or group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus pyogenes (S. pyogenes), or a combination of the two” (Hartman-Adams et al., 2014, p. 229). Healthy skin is…