Infectious disease thread.
03-25-2012, 10:16 PM
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C. Diff - man - NEVER will forget culturing those plates out - just like days old roadkill that's been baking in 100F sun. Clostridia = stench from hell
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03-25-2012, 10:36 PM
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I would never have thought MRSA was that widespread, that stuff is pretty dangerous right? What does it take for a person to go from being a carrier to being sick? I take it most come in for something else and y'all find that they are a carrier.
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03-25-2012, 10:41 PM
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That'd be one hell of an account to have! But, no - most my work is done at local Universities and Biotech - like UAB (which is huge research) and Southern Research. I do go MSU and Huntsville regularily, and some hospitals doing NIST calibrations on bone/tissue freezers and blood banking units to keep Joint Commision off their backs.
C. Diff - man - NEVER will forget culturing those plates out - just like days old roadkill that's been baking in 100F sun. Clostridia = stench from hell
C. Diff - man - NEVER will forget culturing those plates out - just like days old roadkill that's been baking in 100F sun. Clostridia = stench from hell
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03-25-2012, 11:23 PM
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03-26-2012, 12:42 AM
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That means asymptomatic carriers are common, and that you can cure yourself over time. However, it gets complicated if you get it in a wound infection, or if you infect some poor immunodeficient patient (who can then get sepsis, lung abcess or something similar not-so-very-fun).
A multiresistant streptococcus group A would also be a beast, why that hasn't happened yet is a real mystery.
Oh yeah. Shearhead, check out nodding disease. Thats some wierd stuff.
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03-26-2012, 12:55 AM
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They are usually as virulent as normal s.aureus.
That means asymptomatic carriers are common, and that you can cure yourself over time. However, it gets complicated if you get it in a wound infection, or if you infect some poor immunodeficient patient (who can then get sepsis, lung abcess or something similar not-so-very-fun).
A multiresistant streptococcus group A would also be a beast, why that hasn't happened yet is a real mystery.
Oh yeah. Shearhead, check out nodding disease. Thats some wierd stuff.
That means asymptomatic carriers are common, and that you can cure yourself over time. However, it gets complicated if you get it in a wound infection, or if you infect some poor immunodeficient patient (who can then get sepsis, lung abcess or something similar not-so-very-fun).
A multiresistant streptococcus group A would also be a beast, why that hasn't happened yet is a real mystery.
Oh yeah. Shearhead, check out nodding disease. Thats some wierd stuff.
Its too bad there isn't more funding for these things, someday we could really benefit from gaining a greater understanding of infectious disease
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03-26-2012, 05:05 AM
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You need to get into the nursing program. I am allowed to do anything but call doctors, do ART lines, or write TO orders. I personally refuse removing PICC lines and ignore nurses who say I "can do" trach care.
If you guys want to see sick, do trach care.... But don't stand in front of it, especially when they cough. They'll shoot wads out they will go across the room and stick to the wall....
If you guys want to see sick, do trach care.... But don't stand in front of it, especially when they cough. They'll shoot wads out they will go across the room and stick to the wall....
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03-26-2012, 08:31 AM
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No I wouldn't worry about it, there are viruses that are both real and could turn into epidemics, not unlike the Spanish Flu Black Plague, or H5N1. I was watching "The Walking Dead", which is a TV show, and part of the episode was centered on the CDC doctor who was trying to learn about the disease that caused people to quickly die and then for their brain stem to be reactivated. This reignited my interest in the more deadly diseases, and the Ebola virus is a very deadly and particularly interesting disease because of its mortality rate and how breakouts seem to happen and then go away very quickly making it hard to trace.
I this is a good quote regarding Mad Cow from emedicinehealth.com... Prions are the brain-attacking protiens that causes Mad Cow.
Prions are highly resistant to heat, ultraviolet light, radiation, and disinfectants that normally kill viruses and bacteria. Prions may infect humans who eat meat from infected cattle. Even cooking meat infected with BSE does not eliminate the prions or the risk.
Once infection occurs, there is a long incubation period that typically lasts several years. When prions reach a critical level in the brain, symptoms such as depression, difficulty walking, and dementia occur and progress rapidly.
Scientists believe that BSE is transmitted from animals to humans when humans eat meat from infected animals. The content of infected brain tissue may be higher in some food products than others, and it may also depend on the way the animal was slaughtered.
BSE can also be transmitted from one human to another through cannibalism.
Once infection occurs, there is a long incubation period that typically lasts several years. When prions reach a critical level in the brain, symptoms such as depression, difficulty walking, and dementia occur and progress rapidly.
Scientists believe that BSE is transmitted from animals to humans when humans eat meat from infected animals. The content of infected brain tissue may be higher in some food products than others, and it may also depend on the way the animal was slaughtered.
BSE can also be transmitted from one human to another through cannibalism.
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03-26-2012, 03:32 PM
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Fun detail. Alcohol doesn't get rid of prions. Neither does normal autoclaves.
No problem for surgical equipment washers nowadays though.
This is fun, what are we gonna be scared of next?
Seriously though, just watch out for the resistant gonococci, hear they are common on the other side of the pond
No problem for surgical equipment washers nowadays though.
This is fun, what are we gonna be scared of next?
Seriously though, just watch out for the resistant gonococci, hear they are common on the other side of the pond
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03-28-2012, 12:28 AM
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Here are some really cool books mildly related to this topic:
Parasite Rex:
http://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-N.../dp/074320011X
Survival of the Sickest:
http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Sicke.../dp/0060889667
Parasite Rex:
http://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-N.../dp/074320011X
Survival of the Sickest:
http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Sicke.../dp/0060889667
And heights.
And whirlpools.
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