Would this patient be considered immunocompromised? Based on the information fro

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Would this patient be considered immunocompromised? Based on the information from the Case Study and your identification of the causative organism of this respiratory infection, was the patient’s general health a factor in the initiation and progression of this disease?

This organism is Rothia mucilaginosa and the case study is:

Sarah’s science fair experiment focused on whether spices in the diet influenced the microbial flora (or microbiota) of the skin. She had heard that garlic supposedly had health benefits and knew that it changed skin odor – did it also change the skin ecosystem? She enlisted the help of her science class and a large group of friends to be test subjects. All were asked to refrain from eating foods with garlic for a week. Then cultures were taken from their skin in various regions of their bodies. With this background information in hand, Sarah encouraged half the group (the test subjects) to eat as much garlic as they could over the next week. The other half of the group comprised the control subjects. At the conclusion of the test period, this organism was isolated from the axillary (armpit) regions of both control and test subjects.

Explanation / Answer

No the patient will not be immunocompressent, Rothia mucilaginosa is a gram positive bacteria . It is a part of normal flora of human oropharynx and upper and lower respiratory tract infection atrributable to the considered organism is not frequent.

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