https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5 Emma Kovacevic en-us 2021-09-16 02:36:44 UTC 2023-05-18 13:37:30 UTC hello@padlet.com ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744637415 A 39 year old, previously healthy, Amish women had been admitted to the burn unit after receiving 3rd degree burns on 56% of her body. ]]> 2021-09-16 02:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744637415 ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744976286 The health care team attempted to treat the burns with burn cream, after being told she needed a second procedure, the patient decided to use her own method to heal her burns which caused an infection which made the health care team give antibiotics. After a few days, the patient started to have abdominal pain and a high WBC so stool samples were ordered.


]]> 2021-09-16 05:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744976286 ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744977826 At first, the stool samples collected were tested for Clostridioides difficile, or C. Diff however, after 3 samples came back negative they took another stool sample the next day when the patient reported bloody diarrhea and pain in her abdomen, which are symptoms, and had a temperature of 103.6 F, which is a sign.

]]> 2021-09-16 05:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744977826 ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744987483 With the new stool sample ordered, the lab collected some stool and put it on selective agar plates and allowed the plates to incubate. After the incubation period was over they recorded their findings of the plate and created Gram Stain slides to view under light microscope.]]> 2021-09-16 05:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744987483 ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744993183 After the incubation period, the lab noticed that the agar plates had pink, encapsulated colonies. When bacteria colonies look pink like the picture shown, that means that they fermented lactose, and you can also see that the colonies are encapsulated in mucoid. Then, after they created the Gram Stain and viewed it under the microscope, they found it to be gram negative rods. So that means they found pink bacteria in the shape of bacilli.]]> 2021-09-16 05:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1744993183 ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1745000673 The health care team came to the conclusion that it was Klebsiella oxytoca, or K. oxytoca, which is penicillin resistent and which has capsules, that caused her ACHC. This took a long time to come to this conclusion because it is not a common cause of colitis. The health care team did stool samples, blood cultures, and cultures of the wound and all three came back confirming it was K. oxytoca.]]> 2021-09-16 05:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1745000673 ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1745021090 The health care team stopped the antimicrobial agents since the bacteria was resistant to it. The patient was able to recover. 
When bacteria is resistant to antibiotics, it kills other bacteria and allows the resistant one to grow and cause disease.]]> 2021-09-16 05:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1745021090 ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1745025329 I look forward to learning about culturing blood and wound samples to see how that is tested. I also look forward to learning about other types of tests like urine tests. ]]> 2021-09-16 05:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1745025329 ek003 https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1749885471 2021-09-18 02:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ek003/701jy0lyqjymjfu5/wish/1749885471