janus is a keen baseball player at the high school where you are employed as a n
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janus is a keen baseball player at the high school where you are employed as a nurse. He comes to your office and shows you an injury to his knee which he got by sliding into home base, scoring a game-winning run. His knee has a red, raw patch where the skin has been scraped off, and the area around the wound is swollen. Janus tells you that he washed his knee with soap and water to remove any germs and then put a bandage on it. Janus' knee infection should be considered an emerging infectious disease, and you should report it to the centers of disease control (CDC).
true or false?
Explanation / Answer
Janus is suffering from knee bursitis possibly of the prepettalar or infrapettalar bursa. The inflammation of bursa could have infected with bacteria resulting in swollen and painful joint. Emerging infectious disease is defined as any infection whose incidence has increased in last 20 years and threatens to increase in the near future. Some of the examples include Lyme's disease, Ebola infection, drug resistant tuberculosis, methicillin resistant staphylococci aureus etc. So, if the infecting organism in Janus' knee is found to be methicillin resistant staphylococci aureus, it should be reported to the center of disease control (CDC) or otherwise, not.
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