MMIC 2ND POSTING: CASE 5

CASE STUDY 5

Particulars
Patient: Wong Fei Hong

Sex: Male

Age: 37

Clinical Diagnosis

Complaints: Fever, swelling around operation wound

Diagnosis: wound infection

Antibiotic treatment (if any): Nil

Specimen Particulars

Specimen: Specimen 5 (Swab)

Date of collection: 26/11/2007

Time of Collection: 9 am

Result of First and Second Investigation through Gram Staining and Culturing

Biochemical Tests and Antibiotics Susceptibility Testing

Pictures of the Listed Microorganisms

• Staphylococcus aureus

Left: Staphylococcus aureus gram stain
Right: Staphylococcus aureus on blood agar

• Streptococcus pyogenes
  
  
  

Left: Streptococcus pyogenes gram stain
Right: Streptococcus pyogenes on blood agar

• Enterococci

Left: Enterococci gram stain
Right: Enterococci on blood agar

• Clostridium perfringens

Left: Clostridium perfringens gram stain
Right: Clostridium perfringens on blood agar

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  
  

Left: Pseudomonas aeruginosa gram stain
Right: The soluble blue pigment pyocyanin is produced by many strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa






References


Book:
Medical Microbiology, 23rd Edition Warren Levinson

Website:
http://keprice.myweb.uga.edu/pseudomonas_files/image002.jpg

http://www.bmb.leeds.ac.uk/mbiology/ug/ugteach/dental/tutorials/images/blood/staphaureus.jpg

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/pseudomonas.html

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/normalflora.html

http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/~gulig/mmid/mmid-lab/labimage/spy1.jpg

http://biomarker.cdc.go.kr:8080/pathogenimg/plate/Streptococcus_pyogenes_blood_agar(colony-1).JPG

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/clostridia.html
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/gnn_images/news_content/01_02/Clostridium_seq/clost2.jpg



By:

Lin Juexiu

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