NURS 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Blood Culture, Dapsone, X-Ray
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Strict parasite - has not been grown in artificial media or tissue culture. Can take a long time for organisms to show symptoms. Slow growth takes longer to show symptoms. Not always sure where it came from. Tend to be in warmer regions with more migration. Aggregates around nerve endings in dermis and forms a granuloma. Can lose function as well as limbs: clinical disease: leprosy (cid:523)(ansen"s disease(cid:524) 15 million cases worldwide; 3,000 in u. s. (many immigrants) Organism is not virulent, few develop disease. Lepromatous lesions cooler regions of body: at risk. People in poverty are more likely to get it because they have a hard time protecting themselves against dieases. Dapsone (cid:523)dds(cid:524) combined with rifampin at natl. (ansen"s dx ctr. , carville la. Mycobacterium avium complex - (mac); intracellulare complex (mai: organism. Complex of 2 different strains of microbacterium that cause the infection. Usually upper respiratory or gi tract: dust, soil, food, infections.
