users are more likely to spread it and less likely to treat it properly. Something that I learned from the articles CDC-TB‚ MDR-TB CDC‚ and Tuberculosis NY Times was that bacteria mutates more frequently when people don’t finish their doses of antibiotics‚ which can lead to a mutated form of TB such as MDR-TB. There are different forms of TB‚ which are MDR-TB (multidrug resistant TB) and XDR-TB (extreme drug resistant TB). Medication and treatment for MDR-TB and XDR-TB is extremely expensive and
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Staphylococcus aureus‚ otherwise known as Staph‚ is a bacterium that has naturally acquired resistance to many current antibiotics. Specifically‚ the MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) strain has acquired resistance to methicillin. Staph frequently colonizes in human nasal passages‚ which serve as reservoirs for transmission. The following texts focus on Staph’s nasal colonization and mode of transmission‚ inspired by the research of Dr. Alexander Cole at UCF’s Burnett School of Biomedical
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Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus‚ MRSA‚ is a common infection in a lot of hospitals‚ nursing homes‚ and among those with weak immune systems. MRSA infections are mostly non-life threatening but can be fatal if left untreated due to its resistance to antibiotics commonly used. Even a healthy person can be a “carrier” and not be infected. To aid in the prevention of MRSA infection‚ hands should be washed using soap and water or cleansed with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Wounds need to be covered with
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2.4 Utilization of polysaccharide degradation products 2.4.1 Chitin degradation products Chitin can be degraded by chitinase which have the ability to degrade chitin directly to low molecular weight chitooligomers‚ which serve a broad range of industrial‚ agricultural‚ and medical functions. It also has a wide-ranging applications including the preparation of pharmaceutically important chitooligosaccharides and N-acetyl-D-glucoseamine‚ and as mosquito control. Chitooligosaccharides have an extensive
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infections are commonly due to staphylococcus aureus‚ while delayed (3 to 12 months) infections are commonly due to propionibacterium species [17-19]. In an effort to increase diagnostic yield and decrease false-negative cultures‚ patients should stop antibiotics for a minimum of 2 weeks prior to
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a gap for research to find an alternative solution. Filling this opening‚ sulfa drugs quickly climbed to the top of research and development agendas of many major pharmaceutical companies.1 Sulfa drugs are any number of synthetically produced antibiotics that contain
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The Shiga toxin comprises a family of related protein toxins produced by bacteria Shigella dysenteriae. The bacteria S. dysenteriae was discovered by Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga in 1898. Shiga studied 36 patients at the Institute for Infectious Diseases (Tokyo‚ Japan) and isolated a bacterium from the intestinal tissue of dysentery patient. Bacterial isolates were cultured and fed to dogs; that resulted in dysenteric disease (Shiga‚ 1898). Shigella belongs to enterobacteriaceae bacterial
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Ofloxacin induced Toxic epidermal necrolysis- A case report. Introduction: Toxic epidermal necrolysis‚ also known as Lyell’s syndrome as it was described by Alan Lyell in 1956 who was a Scottish dermatologist. (1) Even though it is a rare but also a serious type of cutaneous adverse drug reaction. It is often characterized by widespread erythema‚ necrosis‚ and bullous detachment of the epidermis and mucous membranes. That results in exfoliation of Epidermis which leaves an exposed
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Language and Communication: Research Dianne Pacifico QBT1: Task 4 - Revisions January 28‚ 2013 Western Governors University * Alcohol-Based Hand Rubs versus Handwashing Efficacy * Hand hygiene has been the foundation of preventing nosocomial infections throughout the hospital. It has been taught for several generations that hand hygiene is effectively accomplish through the use of handwashing with soap and water. Unfortunately‚ studies have shown that handwashing practices have
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Dolosigranulum pigrumis considered as an emerging opportunistic pathogen. It was isolated from a patien twith facial herpes zoster accompanied by herpes zoster conjunctivitis and identified by 16S rRNA DNA sequence analysis. Furthermore‚ literature data were collected together to describe the characteristics of D. pigrum and the infections. Dolosigranulum pigrum is catalase-negative gram-positive cocci arranged in pairs‚ tetrads‚ and clusters and usually colonize the normal floras of the oral cavity
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