Staphylococcus aureus: difficulty in treating infection

The name of staphylococcus aureus was obtained because of the yellow color, which can be seen in a microscope. Due to the fact that bacteria feed on dying tissues and decomposing food, they are the causative agents of purulent processes.

Staphylococcus destroys fats and proteins contained in tissues, and creates for itself a nutrient, putrefactive environment. Enzymes of infection overwhelmingly affect the immune system, which allows them to quickly move around the body, causing blood poisoning. The product of the vital activity of bacteria is the strongest toxin.

To catch an infection most often it is possible in hospitals, polyclinics and maternity hospitals.

In almost 100% of cases, staphylococcus aureus appears on the skin in the form of barley, chicken, carbuncles, boils, etc. Bacteria cause a number of lesions in a person: abscesses, cholecystitis, appendicitis, meningitis, peritonitis, pyoderma, pneumonia, eczema, sycosis, panaritium, dermatitis, blepharitis, osteomyelitis, etc.

Staphylococcus aureus causes the occurrence of secondary diseases with influenza, smallpox, wound infections, festering after the operation. In children, staphylococcal sepsis or pneumonia are very dangerous diseases.

Bacteria are found in mixed infections. Staphylococci are found together with streptococci in diphtheria, angina, tuberculosis, acute respiratory infections, influenza.

Bacteria are very resistant to high temperatures, light, drying, chemicals.

Staphylococcus aureus produces an enzyme called coagulase. Infection, getting into the vascular bed, with the help of an enzyme produces blood clotting. Microbes penetrate into microthrombi, because of which staphylococcal sepsis develops, the infection can affect any organ, causing an inflammatory purulent process. Bacteria can lead to the development of inflammation of bone tissue (osteomyelitis), penetrate into the chest (the main cause of purulent mastitis), into the upper respiratory tract - into the paranasal sinuses, the ear cavity, to descend into the lungs, causing staphylococcal pneumonia.

The most common toxic disease caused by bacteria is food poisoning. Half of the golden staphylococci secretes an enterotoxin, a poisonous substance that causes abdominal pain, vomiting, and severe diarrhea.

The main place of accumulation of staphylococcus in a healthy person is the nasal cavity, larynx, underarms and perineum, the scalp and gastrointestinal tract. Bacteria usually grab axillary areas, nasal passages. Very often, the carrier of infection is the medical staff, patients with atopic dermatitis, drug addicts. .

By the age of five, bacteria appear in the nose in 40% of children, and in 20-50% in adults who are not affiliated with the hospital.

After hospitalization, carriers of strains of staphylococci become approximately 30% of patients taking antibiotics, treated for infectious diseases and diabetics. Bacteria appear during menstruation in 30% of women

The presence of staphylococcus is determined when analyzing feces, as well as biological material taken from the nose, oropharynx, and paranasal sinuses. This is done with suspicion of bacteriocarrier or infection, with periodic examinations of medical workers in maternity hospitals and surgical hospitals. If it is revealed that there is no Staphylococcus aureus in the analyzes: the norm is observed.

Treating infection is a very difficult task. After the analysis the doctor - dermatovenereologist appoints complex treatment with antibiotics and sulfanilamide preparations. The complexity of treatment is that staphylococcus aureus is the leader in the ability to develop resistance to antibacterial agents and antibiotics.