This assignment counts for attendance for 9/24. Your movie post is due on or by 9/24 (for attendance) and the essay is due on or by 9/30. Your response will be graded based on timeliness and quality. Assignment value: 35 pts
1. Watch the video: Hunting Nightmare Bacteria (The video should be hyperlinked but if it doesn't work then cut and paste it in.) www.pbs.org/video/hunting-nightmare-bacteria-update-nqil1d/ 2. Write a post of what was the most interesting, scary, or thought-provoking part of the movie for you. 3. Besides examining antibiotic resistant bacteria the other topic emphasized are nosocomial infections. "Nosocomial infections are often caused by breaches of infection control practices and procedures, unclean and non-sterile environmental surfaces, and/or ill hospital staff" (Nosocomial Infections & Hospital-Acquired Illness, n.d.). Nosocomial infections are community-based infections that are common in hospital, critical care, school and other community settings. The second part of your assignment is to investigate one of the common nosocomial infections listed below: Common Nosocomial Infections: 1. Staphylococcus aureus 2. Pseudomonas aeruginosa 3. Escherichia coli 4. Clostridium difficile 5. Acinetobacter baumannii 6. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia 7. Mycobacterium tuberculosis 8. Enterococcus gallinarum (Vancomycin-resistant) 9. Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires' disease) Write an essay answering that includes the following information. Include in-text citations and a reference list: a. Provide a description of the bacteria that causes the infection. Your description should include shape, grouping and gram stain. b. What are the signs and symptoms of the infection causes by your bacteria? c. What part of the body are most affected by the bacteria? d. How is the infection treated? Is there issue with it being antibiotic resistant? e. Statistical information: what is the infection rate (frequency) of infection for your organism? Final essays should be posted on weebly Reference: Nosocomial Infections & Hospital-Acquired Illness. (n.d). EHA Consulting Group, Inc. Retrieved from http://www.ehagroup.com/epidemiology/nosocomial-infections/
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April Carlino
9/22/2019 11:46:08 am
It’s Sunday morning, 9/22/19, and I just finished watching the Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria documentary on Frontline PBS written and produced by Rick Young. The title is correct. My first thought goes to my children. I’ve always made sure any cuts were washed and cleaned, neosporin applied, and a bandaid used if necessary. I always told my kids not to pick your scabs. We only take antibiotics if needed and used as directed. I am aware that the overuse of antibiotics has caused bacteria to be resistant to them. I have heard about MRSA and how some people get worse once they are admitted to a hospital. Even with my sparse piece of knowledge, life happens and superbugs are real and can happen to anyone at any time.
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Alfredo Bancoro
9/22/2019 12:44:43 pm
According to the Center of Communicable Diseases, “two million people get bacterial infection every year and twenty-three thousand among them die from the infection which is more than the number of AIDS-related death.” It is frightening to know that once you get infected by any of these gram-negative bacteria, your life could last in a short period of time.
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Alfred
9/22/2019 12:46:35 pm
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Nicolle Casey
9/23/2019 05:13:00 pm
The scariest thing about the report “Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria” is that the current business model of drug development for profit does not support a business case for the development of new antibiotics to fight these new antibiotic resistant super bugs. Bradley Spellburg, author of Rising Plague and previous science advisor to Pfizer states that there is no money to be made in antibiotics which are drugs that cannot be used on a long-term basis and which its effectiveness is reduced by its use. Drug companies will invest the majority of their research dollars in drugs that people can use on a long term basis and provide the largest return on the drug companies initial research investment and provide profits for its shareholders. If the health and wellbeing of our society is second to the health and wellbeing of a drug manufactures shareholder portfolio there is a large risk that we will loose many people to drug resistant super bugs.
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Rebekah Greason
9/24/2019 03:41:09 am
The most frightening part of the Frontline report Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria is that young healthy individuals are contracting infections.
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Alyssa
9/24/2019 07:13:14 pm
In the video Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria I'd have to say the most thought provoking part is the fact that these big businesses arent using their income towards figuring out a cure to get rid of these antibiotic resistant genes. This video showed me how serious this issue is, how easily you can get a bacteria and how fast these genes can spread.
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Alyssa
9/24/2019 07:22:44 pm
Sorry for all the grammar errors! and that randoms paragraph in the middle that just stops in the middle of a sentence.. I hope I did get my point across and it wasn't to confusing to grasp Margo!
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April Carlino
9/29/2019 03:52:55 pm
September 29, 2019
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Alyssa
9/29/2019 05:33:47 pm
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m0U5PUHZSBckqTt0BQ0RCJ_FQboa2loO3h-Jvpym_70/edit?usp=sharing
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Alyssa Huse
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Rebekah Greason
9/30/2019 06:23:36 am
Rebekah Greason
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Alfredo Bancoro
9/30/2019 12:22:50 pm
Acinetobacter Baumannii
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Alfredo Bancoro
9/30/2019 12:24:14 pm
References:
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Alfredo Bancoro
9/30/2019 12:25:28 pm
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Nicolle Casey
9/30/2019 02:18:00 pm
Nicolle Casey
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