Did you know that Methicillin – Resistant Staphylococcus Areaus‚ also know as MRSA is a frequent infection found in medical facilities? MRSA is a strain of staph that is resistant to common antibiotics and can be very difficult to treat. Staph is short for Staphylococcus; staph is a harmless bacteria which resides on the surface of all your skin. Usually this is not a problem until a person punctures their skin. They then face the risk of staph infection (Kidshealth.org 2012). MRSA frequents
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Important Things to Know About Before Getting a Tattoo Lori Porter Axia College of University of Phoenix Tattoos are a wonderful way of expressing ones individuality‚ but people need to think about all the ramifications of getting a tattoo before they get it. Serious problems can arise from making this decision without consciously thinking it through. “Tattoos are fast becoming a mark of the 21st century‚ with one quarter of those under the age of 30 adorning their skin with at least
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Results: The conventional methods used to identify MRSA require culturing which can take days to obtain. For hospitals needing quick results the PCR method is ideal because results can be obtained within just a few hours (often as low as within five hours). Getting these results in such a timely manner can help to start treatment earlier‚ reducing the amount of time needed for isolation and hospitalization‚ and thus reducing costs. It has also been shown that the PCR method is not only quick but
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The Corporation The 2003 Canadian film documentary‚ The Corporation‚ is about the modern-day corporation. It critiques that it is considered to be a person‚ but since it has so many disregards to the human well-being and only cares about making as much money as possible‚ if it were an actual person it would be considered a psychopath. The documentary starts off with showing the development of the contemporary business corporation‚ from beginning as a legal entity to then having the entitlement
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UNKNOW BACTERIA LAB REPORT UNKNOWN 36 Introduction The purpose of this lab was to identify two unknown bacteria from a mixed culture. The reason for identification of unknown bacteria was to help students recognize different bacteria through different biochemical tests and characteristics. This is important in the medical field because identification of unknown bacteria can help treat a patient by knowing the contributing source of a disease. Also knowledge of different bacteria helped others
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Foodborne Illness – Staphylococcus • What is the infectious agent (pathogen) that causes this infectious disease? Staphylococcus is an unmodifiable bacterium that causes Botulism. Which mean that individuals have no control over catching or not catching this disease. Since botulism is such strong and dangerous bacteria‚ that ingesting the smallest amount can make individuals sick. More important is other living forms or life like bacteria’s are changing‚ and becoming resistant to the
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1. Coagulase 2. this will differentiate Staphylococcus aureus from Staphylococcus epidermidis. 3. B. Staphylococcus aureus 4. the plasma clotted (gelled)‚ indicating a positive coagulase‚ which indicates S. aureus having followed the diagnostic scheme so far. the beta-hemolysis of this particular strain of S. aureus is not diagnostic of the species. Some strains produce the hemolysin‚ while others don’t. 5. B. Alpha hemolytic and small. (There is a greenish color of the red blood
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antibiotics while the second is due to the fact that “bacteria naturally develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs.” (Clemmitt‚ 2007) One example of a “super bug” is the ever so popularly known- MRSA. MRSA stands for methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus. (cdc.gov‚ 2007 as cited by Clemmitt‚ 2007) MRSA has two different kinds- CA-MRSA is community acquired MRSA and HA-MRSA which is hospital acquired MRSA. (Clemmitt‚ 2007) To reduce the risk of creating “super bugs” the doctors urge patients
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those results of the stain to determine what my unknown could be. The first test I did was the catalase test. It had a positive reaction meaning the bacteria produced the enzyme catalase. This helped me narrow my unknown down to Micrococcus and Staphylococcus. I inoculated my unknown onto a mannitol salt agar. The growth and color change to yellow indicated mannitol fermentation because acid was produced. The acid fermentation is a characteristic of the pathogen
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sensitive‚ intermediate‚ or resistant; and report to TA. Procedure: Selective and Differential Media 1. Label the MacConkey agar plates. Streak the plates for the following organisms: Enterobacter aerogenes‚ Salmonella enterica‚ and Staphylococcus aureus‚ and sterilize the loop after streaking each quadrant. 2. Label a sheep blood agar plate and use a loopful of Enterococcus faecalis to inoculate it. Streak the plate. 3. Repeat step 2 for Streptococcus pyogenes 4. Transfer an A disc
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