In the meantime they rob your system of nutrition, loading you down with their excretions and secretions these include Lice and Ringworm 1.3 Colonisation is when a bacterial strain invades a region of your body and starts to rapidly divide - it sets up a new colony Infection is similar but only usually used for opportunistic pathogenic bacteria - that is it does not usually refer to bacteria that normally inhabit us 1.4 Localised infection is restricted to a ceratin region of your body Systemic infection means that the infection is throughout your body. This usually means that the bacteria have been able to invade either your ciculatory system or the lymphatic system and spread 1.5 Some of the poor practises that may
All wounds, even minor cuts and scrapes, should be treated as contaminated and potentially serious and should be carefully cleaned to prevent infection. Some wounds, like in this case a bite, always carry a high risk of infection, especially because the wound contained imbedded foreign material (the tooth of the fish). This wound should have been left open to drain and medical consultation should have followed immediately; these wounds require antibiotic therapy and careful follow-up. Yet, an infection would still occurred, whether the tooth of the fish was in the wound or not, because of the bacteria that gotten into the wound and because the wound was not treated properly. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With the right set of conditions, necrotizing fasciitis is a real risk and can cause severe damage. t is most commonly transferred by respiratory droplets or direct contact with secretions of someone carrying Strep A. For instance, a person carrying a Strep A bacteria might not even show symptoms or become ill at all. They cough or sneeze, another person picks up the bacteria on their hands or directly at the point of a wound and the infection occurs. The NF patient is not likely to be contagious, and inanimate objects are unlikely to be points of
1.3 What is meant by…. Infection~ A term used for an illness that has been caused by a harmful organism/bacteria. Colonisation~ This term is to identify when bad bacteria can be present but is causing no illness or harm to the carrier. 1.4 Systemic infection~ This is where an infection affects all the body and also the cognitive matter and can make the whole body feel unwell like chest/urine infections or septicemia. Localised infection~ Is where the pain can be pinpointed and is coming from the cause itself and the area that it homes at, this would be things like cuts/wounds to the skin or an ingrown toenail.
When cooking food, it is extremely important to follow safe practices such as getting the pot or pan at a high enough temperature that will kill off bacteria because if the pan is not hot enough, this could possibly provide the bacteria with an opportunity to grow and multiply which will could cause an outbreak of food poisoning, for example, E.Coli. When serving food, it is important that if hot food is what is being served then the container in which it will be held has already been preheated and that food is not left lying around in the open as this will allow bacteria to start building up once again. In a health and social care setting such as a care home for either the elderly or for teenagers, it is extremely important to follow safe practices for a number of reasons. If members of staff decide not to follow safe practices, it can result in an outbreak of possible food poisoning so therefore, when preparing food, it is important to follow safe practices. This is because not preparing the food correctly can cause bacteria to start building up and multiplying, therefore causing it to become contaminated.
If left untreated the symptoms could worsen and you could be left with septicemia, food poisoning like symptoms, bleeding from under the skin, in the urine, from the mouth and nose, shock, kidney failure, breathing problems. Considering the plague is so rare it is easy to be dismissed as something else but if it is suspected, you would need blood work to confirm this diagnosis (Yersinia pestis, 2012).. Simple tests can give significant insight into the types and levels of pathogenic tendencies the bacteria at hand may have. Tests for the general structure of the bacteria include Gram staining in which the shape, outer membrane structure, and presence of spores can be determined. A hanging drop test determines whether a bacterium has one or more flagellum.
Their biomass is at least 10 times greater than all eukaryotes. You have more prokaryotes in your mouth or on your skin than the total number of humans who have ever lived. They are found wherever there is life and in places too extreme for any eukaryote. They can cause disease, give us vitamins, cycle carbon and nitrogen. Life on Earth as we know it would stop without them.
When a virus enters the body, it enters some certain cells and takes over making the now host cell make the parts the virus needs to reproduce, the cells are eventually destroyed through this process. The most common viruses is the common cold, which has no cure. Fungi Mould, yeast and mushrooms are all types of Fungi. Fungi live in the air, water, soil and on plants and they can live in the body, usually without causing illness. Some fungi have beneficial uses.
Some of the most deadly diseases and devastating epidemics in human history have been caused by bacteria. Cholera Diphtheria Dysentery Plague Pneumonia Tuberculosis Typhoid Typhus VIRUSES A virus is a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of other organisms. Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea. The average virus is about one one-hundredth the size of the average bacterium. Most viruses are too small to be seen directly with an optical microscope.
Others exist in the environment as spores of moulds A parasite is an organism that lives on or in another organism, harming the host. 1.2 Identify common illnesses and infections caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites Bacteria Tuberculosis Urinary tract infections Viruses Influenza Herpes Chickenpox and shingles Fungi Ringworm Candida Parasites Malaria Tapeworms 1.3 Describe what is meant by ‘infection’ and ‘colonisation’ sometimes we can have a disease causing organism living on/in us but not be showing symptoms of illness this is known as colonisation. If the organism is making us ill this is infection. 1.4 Explain what is meant by ‘systemic infection’ and ‘localised infection’ A systemic infection is in the bloodstream and has spread or is spreading around the body. They normally spread through the bloodstream and most of the infectious diseases known to the general public are examples of systemic infections (AIDs, flu, tuberculosis) Localised infections remain in one part of the body and do not cause problems