Infectious and parasitic diseases

Meningococcal infection

Meningococcal infection is an acute anthroponous infectious disease with an aerosol mechanism of transmission of the pathogen, which is characterized by fever, intoxication, hemorrhagic rash and purulent inflammation of the brain membranes.

Treatment of staphylococcal infection

Hospitalization is mandatory for patients with a severe and moderate form of the disease, including patients who can not provide isolation and proper care at home. The regime depends on the clinical form of the disease. Diet is not required.

Diagnosis of staphylococcal infection

The diagnosis of staphylococcal infection is based on the results of a microbiological study, since the clinical manifestations are non-specific and do not allow in most cases to carry out differential diagnosis with similar clinical forms caused by another opportunistic pathogens.

Causes of Staphylococcal Infection

The causative agent of staphylococcal infection is representatives of the genus Staphylococcus family Micrococcaceae. By the presence of coagulase, staphylococci are divided into coagulase-positive and coagulase negative. On the human skin, 14 of the 27 known types of staphylococcus live. Three of them play a role in human pathology: S. Aureus (coagulase-positive), S. Epidermidis and S. Saprophytics (coagulase-negative). The aetiological factor in a person most often becomes S. Aureus.

Staphylococcal infections

Staphylococcal infections are widespread anthropozoonotic bacterial infections with multiple mechanisms of transmission of the pathogen. Characterized by the development of purulent inflammation in the lesions, intoxication and the frequent generalization of the pathological process with the development of sepsis.

How is pneumococcal disease treated?

Antimicrobial treatment of pneumococcal infection depends on the clinical form of pneumococcal infection and the severity of the patient's condition.

How is pneumococcal disease diagnosed?

Clinical diagnosis is reliable only for croupous pneumonia, but the probability of pneumococcal etiology of community-acquired pneumonia, otitis, sinusitis is 60-80 °. Verify the diagnosis can only be based on the results of a microbiological study of the corresponding biosubstrate: with rhinitis - nasal discharge (smear), with otitis, sinusitis - purulent exudate, pneumonia - sputum, with meningitis - cerebrospinal fluid.

Causes of pneumococcal infection

Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumonie) - Gram-positive diplococcus oval or lanceolate, surrounded by a polysaccharide capsule. Refers to the genus Streptococcus family Streptococcaceae. Depending on the structure of the capsular antigen, 85 serotypes are isolated. The main pathogenicity factors are the capsule, the suppressing phagocytosis, and the teichoic acid of the cell wall reacting with CRP.

Pneumococcal infection

Pneumococcal infection - anthroponous disease with airborne droplet transmission of the pathogen, is characterized by the most frequent lesion of ENT organs, lungs and central nervous system.

Treatment of erysipelas

With severe infiltration of the skin in the focus of inflammation shows the intake of NSAIDs (diclofenac, indomethacin) for 10-15 days. For severe erysipelas, parenteral detoxification therapy (polyvidone, dextran, 5% glucose solution, polyionic solutions) with 5-10 ml of a 5% solution of ascorbic acid, 60-90 mg of prednisolone is carried out. Assign cardiovascular, diuretic, antipyretics.

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