Staphylococcus aureus (Staphylococcus aureus) is the most pathogenic of all staphylococci, which in humans stimulates various purulent-inflammatory diseases. It belongs to the genus of staphylococci (staphylococcus), part of the family of micrococci (micrococcaceae), which in turn is part of the order of lactobacilli, the class of bacilli, type of firmicutes, and finally in the kingdom of bacteria.
But the most interesting thing is that for many people staphylococcus aureus is the norm of life, that is, this terrible bacterium lives in their bodies and does not do them any harm at all. These people are chronic carriers. This phenomenon is most often found among the personnel 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 be found in the perineum, in the gastrointestinal tract, in the larynx and on the scalp, in its scalp. In the first two years of life, up to twenty percent of all babies become carriers of this microorganism. And by four to six years in the nasal passages of children, staphylococcus aureus can be found in thirty to fifty percent of cases. In people not related to health, depending on the region in which the study was conducted, this bacterium is seeded in twelve to fifty percent of cases. And after undergoing inpatient treatment, twenty to thirty percent of former patients also develop staphylococcus carriage. First of all, people who were treated with antibiotic therapy, as well as patients with diabetes mellitus and patients who underwent hemodialysis, fall into the risk group for intrahospital infection with this microbe.
It is those strains of bacteria that constantly nest in hospitals, and lead to the appearance of intra-stationary pustular diseases and wound infections. Carriage of staphylococcus aureus in the nasal passages of medical personnel can reach a figure of thirty-five percent. After the first menstruation, five to fifteen percent of all women have Staphylococcus aureus, after each subsequent cycle, this indicator increases slightly, reaching a level of thirty percent.
Some strains of staphylococcus aureus, the treatment of which at one time apparently did not seem to be complete, began to acquire resistance to antibiotics, and especially to drugs of the penicillin and cephalosporin groups. Such colonies are called methicillin-resistant. Mortality from this kind of bacteria reaches up to thirty percent among the people who infected them, and the number of those who plant such a microbe, for example, in the United States of America is growing at ten percent per year. You can get this dangerous infection in any public places.
For diagnosis, feces, secretions of the paranasal sinuses, nasopharynx and other biological materials are used. Normally, Staphylococcus aureus should not be determined. It is detected using a test for the presence of coagulase, a specific enzyme that is found only exclusively in Staphylococcus aureus.
What medicines can help in the fight against this dangerous microorganism? The following antibiotics can easily cope with ordinary staphylococcus aureus: 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, when identifying this microbe, you must make every effort to eliminate it in order to avoid complications in the future.