A Case of Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus Infection

I thought it difficult to evaluate Janice at the outpatient clinic today. She is a little tangent. I think she feels good. She has no obvious pain. She feels a certain dizziness at the right knee, but there is no pain. You can move your knees with a relatively constant range of movement. She had an ischemic right toe during her hospitalization, and none of this had progressed. They are essentially useless. She denied fever, chills, anorexia nervosa or night sweats.

Staphylococcus aureus Staphylococcus aureus is generally found in the skin and nose of healthy people (about one-third of a person). Most people who have staphylococci in the skin and nose are not adversely affected and are described as "colonization". Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a special Staphylococcus that has become unresponsive to many commonly used antibiotics such as penicillin. These bacteria invade the body through the skin due to incision, pain or surgical incision, sometimes infection (such as impetigo, vap, abscess or infected wound). This situation is most likely to happen to people who are already sick, but it can also happen to healthy people in the area.

Treatment of infection by Staphylococcus aureus revolutionized in the 1940's by the introduction of antibiotic penicillin. However, most S. aureus strains are currently resistant to penicillin. Staphylococcus aureus decomposes penicillin and produces a substance called beta-lactamase which destroys its antibacterial activity. In the early 1960s, a new penicillin antibiotic called methicillin was developed. Methicillin is not degraded by β-lactamase and can therefore be used to treat infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus strain producing S. aureus strains. Later, methicillin is replaced by a better penicillin antibiotic, which is not affected by beta - lactamase like fluxacillin. Unfortunately, some Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains called MRSA (Johnson, 2007) immediately after the introduction of methicillin.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus commonly known as "st" and is a common skin infection commonly found in hospitals in particular. In 1959, methicillin was first introduced as an antibiotic, after which MRSA began to appear in British hospital in 1961. In 1968 when a patient was infected with MRSA at Boston Hospital, it appeared in the United States. MRSA is becoming more common in hospital settings because infections are likely to expand through open wounds, dirty conditions, and personal contamination. The occurrence occurred at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center in December 2016, which showed recently how the condition of the hospital can easily occur. In a California hospital, 10 infants who received treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit have been reported and these infants have been positive for the same MRSA strain since December 2016 and the last one was examined in March It was done.