20-30% of people carry in nostrils

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• epidemiology
  • 20-30% of people carry in nostrils
  • community acquired infections (3)
  • hospital acqured infections
    • spread among PTs via healthcare workers
    • carriage increases odds of infx after surgery
    • major hosp. infxs (3)
    • increasing proportion are methicillin resistant (MRSA)
• clinical illness
  • bone and joint infxs
  • pneumonia
  • endocarditis
    • mortality
    • right-sided endocarditis in drug addicts
    • clinical presentation (4)
    • risk factors (3)
  • bacteremia
    • clinical presentation
    • sources of infx
    • risk factors (5)
  • spreading soft tissue infxs
    • fasciitis
    • lymphangitis lymphadenitis
    • cellulitis
  • localized skin infections
    • impetigo
    • carbuncle
    • furuncle
    • folliculitis
  • toxin mediated disease*
    • Staphylococcal Food Poisoning
    • Toxic Shock Syndrome
    • Scalded Skin Syndrome
• treatment
  • methcillin (oxacillin)
  • 1% is susceptible to penicillin

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