Your patient is a 20-year-old woman with the sudden onset of fever to 40 0C and a severe headache. Physical examination reveals nuchal rigidity. You suspect meningitis and do a spinal tap. Gram stain of the spinal fluid reveals many neutrophils and many gram-negative diplococci
Your patient is a 20-year-old woman with the sudden onset of fever to 40 0C and a severe headache. Physical examination reveals nuchal rigidity. You suspect meningitis and do a spinal tap. Gram stain of the spinal fluid reveals many neutrophils and many gram-negative diplococci
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Write the most likely causative microorganism and disease of the following cases and explain sign, symptoms and control measures.
- Your patient is a 20-year-old woman with the sudden onset of fever to 40 0C and a severe headache. Physical examination reveals nuchal rigidity. You suspect meningitis and do a spinal tap.
Gram stain of the spinal fluid reveals many neutrophils and many gram-negative diplococci.
- A 25-year-old woman with itching, burning at vulva and abnormal white vaginal discharge. Yeasts was observed by microscopic examination of vaginal secretions.
- Meningitidis developed in the newborn baby within 5 days after birth. While the mother of baby was pregnant, she was consuming unpasteurized milk products .
- A male patient has a wound infection with blue-greenish colored pus and special smell. This bacteria is gram negative, rod shaped and non- fermentative.
- A 70-year-old woman presented after 3 days of enduring painful blisters only on the right side of her forehead and cheek and fever for the past 5 days. She developed the fluid-filled blisters 2 days after the fever. The pain was severe, continuous and radiating. She has medical history of chickenpox.
Compare and contrast each of the following:
- Moist and dry heat sterilization
- Specific and non-specific immunity
- gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria
- Hepatitis B and hepatilis C virus infection
- Giardiosis and Amebiasis
- Strep throat and pharyngitis
- Explain how does antibiotic resistance spread and give 3 multi-drug resistance bacteria.
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