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involves mul confirm your pre gen's potency mune system, toxins, adher- gree of tissue Case Study 5.2 Jamie is a 48-year-old black woman who c department complaining of a are common into the emergency painful s the distinctive , and redness over th drainage n her garden and said she had transmission past 5 he left hand. She spends a lot of time outdoors working i de direct con nasty" mosquito bite on the top of that hon f increa transmission pretty nasty" mosquito o her doctor n d an oral antibiotic and was told it wo probably a mild infection from the insect bite. Nou dictate that she presents because her hand is increasingly pain. when having ul tight. and the drainage has worsened She before the swelling started. After 3 days o reventing the ct. Universal care that rec- as potentially ling and redness she went t fluids. Masks noticed that she had a fever this morning of 102.9 ommended if Laboratory test results today show a WBC count ent and 18,500 After in anticipated. de exposure. hospitalization the wound culture is found to be positive for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus and conva- tate d by the aureus (MRSA). From your reading and experience ing microor- regarding infectious processes, answer the follow ing questions: de septice- ction in 1. Outline the process that is most likely occurring in Jamie's body 2. What is the probable source of this infection? 3. What would you expect for local and systemic clinical manifestations? 4. What diagnostic tests were used or could be used How could you differentiate between viral or bac- terial pathogens? who is r to the middle . What additional treatment measures would you rience anticipate? How is MRSA treated differently than lowing nonresistant pathogens? 6. What would be the potential complications? curring

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1. Jamie is suufering from MSRA. The processes occuring in Jamie's body includes redness of skin, sweeling and pain.in infected area. Fever and nausea are also happening.

2. Most probable souce of infection is mosquito bite in garden. Tere may be prior presence of infection.

3. Clinical manifestation range from benign skin problem to life threatening conditions

4. Haemogram and blood culture was done. Bacterial culture can also be used. the major difference between bacterial and viral pathogens are all viruses are pathogens but all bacteria are not pathogens. Viral pathogens can cause more harm as compared to bactrerial pathogens.

5. Person should be prevent from infection like dont use same gloves again and again. Oral antibiotics can also be given. MRSA is resistant to number of different antibiotics, so it is harder to treat than nonresistant bacteria. But, MRSA is not resistant to every antibiotic and most strains of MRSA can still be treated with vancomycin, etc.

6. Potential complications include life threatening as if disease is ignored in earlier stage it can be life threatening.

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