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    Week 2 Assignment Template Informative Presentation Outline (4-5 minutes) Title:                                        To Botox‚ Or Not To Botox Specific Purpose:    To inform my audience about current uses‚ usage‚ and general information about Botox Audience: Individuals against Botox procedures Organizational Pattern: Categorical Introduction:                 I.         By a show of hands how many people think Botox is just for housewives with too much time and money on their hands?                

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    Response: “After sealing the bottle with a butyl rubber stopper and an aluminum crimp‚ the bottle was purged with pure nitrogen (for 10 min) to obtain anaerobic conditions.” This explanation is added to the revised manuscript. (Page 8‚ line 13-15) Comment 14: Page 8: Explain if pH was controlled during fermentation. In any case‚ do a reference in the result section to the pH at the end of fermentation Response: The pH was not directly controlled during the fermentation. In the line with typical

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    Gastrointestinal tract infections are caused by the transmission of gastrointestinal pathogens via a fecal- oral route into the gut where they cause systemic disease‚ such as typhoid or multiply and produce toxins damaging the gastrointestinal tract. Clostridium difficile is a

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    1) The 83yr old man has had a history of hypertension and chronic renal failure‚ which may have factored in his cause of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) after undertaking is aortic valve replacement. The case study states that Staphylococcus‚ a bacterium that is normally found in the gastrointestinal tract and is one of the common bacteria in most UTI‚ was isolated from the patient’s blood cultures. It is also common that a bladder infection is a symptom of any underlying disorder‚ such as the patient’s

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    Microbiology 215 exam #2 chap 7‚ 11‚ 12 81-90 essay: 10 points Describe the Kirby Bauer Test? Make sure you describe all the key elements. 1. Using sterile technique‚ inoculate 3 nutrient agar plates individually with: a. E. coli b. S. aureus c. M. smegmatis 2. Place antibiotic disks evenly spaced on the inoculated agar plates and incubate at 37C for 24-48 hours. 3. Using sterile technique‚ inoculate 3 nutrient agar plates individually with: a. E. coli b. S. aureus c. M. smegmatis

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    antibiotic era. Our current state is urgent to say the least‚ the entire CDC urgent threat list is filled with a wide range of multi-resistant bacteria. Clostridium difficile is the first on the list‚ it is gram-positive and erupts from the distribution of normal colon bacteria. The on set primarily starts by taking antibiotics‚ because Clostridium difficile is immune to nearly all antibiotics. Second is Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae‚ it’s a gram-negative blood infection and is resistant to

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    a serious bacterial infection; Clostridium difficile. Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that causes infectious diarrhea which can lead to inflammation of the colon (Day‚ 2016). It is a life threatening infection. The article does not state how a fecal transplant is performed but Zimmer does state that as a part of their research‚ scientists took spores from healthy feces and put them inside pills to give to patients who were infected with Clostridium difficile. The pills were given to thirty

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    Clostridium Difficile‚ C. difficile or more commonly called C. diff. belongs to the “domain bacteria which makes it a prokaryotic‚ its Phylum is Firmicutes‚ its class is Clostridia‚ its order is clostridiales‚ its family is Peptostreptococcaceae” (Brymer). “Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming‚ Gram-positive anaerobic bacillus that produces two exotoxins: toxin A and toxin B. It is a common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). It accounts for 15-25% of all episodes of AAD.” [1] The

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    decrease in urine output. 10-15 percent would be considered severe dehydration and could result in death (Welch‚ 2010).                 The nursing diagnosis analyzed in this paper is fluid volume deficit related to diarrhea secondary to clostridium difficile. Behaviors for fluid volume deficit are as follows: skin turgor more than 3 seconds‚ dry mucus membranes‚ longitudinal furrows on the tongue‚ slow capillary refill‚ confusion‚ lethargic‚ low urine output as defined as less than 30 millimeters

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    Determine Responsibility of Team Members Every member on the team has an important role to play in the implementation of the research study to facilitate the achievement of the project. Nurses are essential to this change because they are the back bone in making certain that everyone stay compliant with the facility protocol concerning PPE guidelines and hand hygiene during patient encounter. The certified nursing assistance (CNA) provide more intimate care for the patients and therefore required

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