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Staphylococcus aureus
- - blood poisioning
- - wound infections
- - penumonia
- 60% strains - resistant to methicllin
- Some poised fro resistance to all antibiotics
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Acinetobacter
- - blood poisioing
- - in patients w/compromised immunity
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Enterococcus faecalis
- blood poisioning, UTI and wound infection
- - in patients w/compromised immunity
- - some multi drug resistant strains are untreatable
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae
- gonorrhea
- - mulit drug resistant now
- - limits tx to cephalosporin only
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Hameophilus influenzae
- pneumonia, ear infecitons, meningitis
- - esp in children
now largely preventable w/vaccines
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- tuberculosis
- - some multi drug resistnat strains untreatable
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Escherichia coli
- UTI infection, blood poisioniing, diarrhea, kidney failure
- - some strains that cause UTI infections = multi drug resistant
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- blood poisioning, pneumonia
- - esp people w/cystic fibrosis or compromised immunity
- - some multi drug resistant strain are untreatable
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Shigella dysenteriae
- dysentry (bloody diarrhea)
- - resistant strains led to epidemic
- - can only be treated by expensive flouroquinolonoes
- - not available in developing countries
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Streptococcus penumoniae
- - blood poisioning
- - middle ear infection
- - pneumonia
- - meningitis
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