Staphylococcus aureus

Staphylococcus aureus (staphylococcus aureus) is the most pathogenic of all staphylococci, which in a person excites various purulent-inflammatory diseases. It belongs to the genus staphylococcus, a member of the micrococcaceae family, which in turn enters the order of lactobacillales, the bacilli class, the type of firmicutes, and finally into the bacterium.

But the most interesting is that for many people staphylococcus aureus is the norm of life, that is, this terrible bacterium lives in their organisms and does absolutely no harm to them. These people are chronic carriers. This phenomenon is most often found in the staff of health care institutions, drug addicts and people suffering from atopic dermatitis. Most often staphylococcus aureus forms its colonies in the axillary regions and nasal passages. It can also occur in the perineum, in the gastrointestinal tract, in the larynx and on the scalp, in the hairy part. Carriers of this microorganism in the first two years of life are up to twenty percent of all babies. And to four to six years in the nasal passages of children staphylococcus aureus can be found already in thirty to fifty percent of cases. For people not related to health protection, depending on the region in which the study was conducted, this bacterium is sown in twelve to fifty percent of cases. And after the hospital treatment passed, twenty to thirty percent of the former patients also develop the carriage of staphylococcus aureus. First of all, people who were treated with antibiotic therapy, as well as patients with diabetes mellitus and patients undergoing hemodialysis, fall into the risk group for intra-hospital infection with this microbe.

It is those strains of bacteria that constantly nest in hospital establishments, and lead to the appearance of intra-stasis pustular diseases and wound infections. The carriage of staphylococcus aureus in the nasal passages of medical personnel can reach a figure of thirty-five percent. After the appearance of the first menstruation, five to fifteen percent of all women get staphylococcus aureus, after each subsequent cycle this index increases somewhat, reaching a level of thirty percent.

Some strains of staphylococcus aureus, whose treatment was apparently not brought to an end, began to acquire resistance to antibiotics, and especially to drugs of the penicillin and cephalosporin groups. Such colonies are called methicillin-resistant ones. Mortality from this type of bacteria reaches up to thirty percent among people who have infected them, and the number of people who have this microbe planted, for example, in the United States of America, grows by ten percent per year. Infect this dangerous infection can be in any places of common use.
For diagnosis, feces, secretions of the paranasal sinuses, nasopharynx and other biological materials are used. Normally, Staphylococcus aureus should not be determined. It is revealed with the help of a test for the presence of coagulase, a specific enzyme, which occurs only exclusively in Staphylococcus aureus.

What medicinal products can help in the fight against this dangerous microorganism? With the usual staphylococcus aureus, the following antibiotics can easily cope: Tetracycline, Nifuratel, Ciprofloxacin, Vancomycin, Furazolidone, Nifuroxazide, Rifaximin, Josamycin, Amoxicillin, Clarithromycin, and Azithromycin. As for methicillin-resistant colonies, they are more sensitive to levofloxacin. Despite the fact that this microorganism is very widespread and many people live perfectly normal with it, it is necessary to exert maximum efforts to eliminate this microbe in order to avoid complications in the future.