Methicillin-Resistant Staphyloccus Aureus
9/20/2013
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus also known as MRSA is a bacteria frequently found on the skin of generally healthy people. MRSA is usually spread through skin to skin contact or contact with an object containing the bacteria. Most of the time you may be carrying the bacteria but you are not ill. Mostly people with weak immune systems and have been in health care centers contract MRSA. The symptoms of MRSA start off as pimple like bumps, and boils. Then forming painful abscesses that may have to be drained due to pus build up. To diagnose MRSA a skin sample …show more content…
The man had a right middle zone pneumonia. Samples were taken from the patient and doctors grew blood cultures. They tested the blood culture and the results were gram stain positive. They then diagnosed the man with MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus). It is not known were the man contracted it but his condition got worst. He formed a lung abscess. To find what medicine to use, doctors performed the disk-diffusion method to determine what medicines the bacteria is susceptible to. The MRSA isolate was resistant to methicillin but susceptible to ampicillin. The patient was treated with ampicillin for 6 weeks and successfully beat the MRSA infection.
A 74 year old women had to get two of her gangerous toes amputated. They were filled with pus. Test were ran from the pus samples taken from her to and she was diagnosed with MRSA. It is not known were she contracted it MRSA from. A methicillin-resistant MRSA strain was found in her pus from the amputated toe. The patient was treated with daptomycin, rifampicin, and amikacin, and aggressive wound care. She is now well and clear of the MRSA. She was the first person to have a vancomycin-resistant MRSA in
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus also known as MRSA is a bacteria frequently found on the skin of generally healthy people. MRSA is usually spread through skin to skin contact or contact with an object containing the bacteria. Most of the time you may be carrying the bacteria but you are not ill. Mostly people with weak immune systems and have been in health care centers contract MRSA. The symptoms of MRSA start off as pimple like bumps, and boils. Then forming painful abscesses that may have to be drained due to pus build up. To diagnose MRSA a skin sample …show more content…
The man had a right middle zone pneumonia. Samples were taken from the patient and doctors grew blood cultures. They tested the blood culture and the results were gram stain positive. They then diagnosed the man with MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus). It is not known were the man contracted it but his condition got worst. He formed a lung abscess. To find what medicine to use, doctors performed the disk-diffusion method to determine what medicines the bacteria is susceptible to. The MRSA isolate was resistant to methicillin but susceptible to ampicillin. The patient was treated with ampicillin for 6 weeks and successfully beat the MRSA infection.
A 74 year old women had to get two of her gangerous toes amputated. They were filled with pus. Test were ran from the pus samples taken from her to and she was diagnosed with MRSA. It is not known were she contracted it MRSA from. A methicillin-resistant MRSA strain was found in her pus from the amputated toe. The patient was treated with daptomycin, rifampicin, and amikacin, and aggressive wound care. She is now well and clear of the MRSA. She was the first person to have a vancomycin-resistant MRSA in