What is Bacteria growing in blood?
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a positive culture...need antibioltic
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bacteria forms in our mouths from the saliva pretty quickly, whether weve eaten or drunk anything
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I believe they are viruses or germs in the blood of an accident victim. We've studied this at work, in case a person has an accident, you need to take precautions when treating them or being around them, or the left-over blood. Blood should always be considered dangerous, just in case.
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take some LACTOBACILLUS powder supplement. drink lots of water. consult a Doctor if u get bloody diarrhoea.\n\nIt will help restoring the good bacterial flora inside your gastrointestinal tract.
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Anthrax, also referred to as splenic fever, is an acute infectious disease caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis and is highly lethal in some forms. Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic herbivores, but it can also occur in humans when they are exposed to infected animals, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores. There are no known cases of infection in humans resulting from direct contact with a diseased person. The word anthrax is derived from the Greek word anthrakis, or "coal", in reference to the black skin lesions victims develop.
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Infective endocarditis\nAs the valves of the heart do not actually receive any blood supply of their own, which may be surprising given their location, defense mechanisms (such as white blood cells) cannot enter. So if an organism (such as bacteria) establish hold on the valves, the body cannot get rid of them.\n\nNormally, blood flows smoothly through these valves. If they have been damaged (for instance in rheumatic fever) bacteria have a chance to take hold.\n\n \nBartonella henselae bacilli in cardiac valve of a patient with blood culture-negative endocarditis. The bacilli appear as black granulations.[edit]\nClassification\nTraditionally, infective endocarditis has been clinically divided into acute and subacute (between acute and chronic) endocarditis. This classifies both the tempo of progression and severity of disease. Thus subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) is often due to streptococci of low virulence and mild to moderate illness which progresses slowly over weeks and months, while acute bacterial endocarditis (ABE) is a fulminant illness over days to weeks, and is more likely due to Staphylococcus aureus which has much greater virulence, or disease-producing capacity.\n\nThis terminology is now discouraged. The terms short incubation (meaning less than about six weeks), and long incubation (greater than about six weeks) are preferred despite the lack of advantage in meaning.\n\nInfective endocarditis may also be classified as culture-positive or culture-negative. Culture-negative endocarditis is due to micro-organisms that require a longer period of time to be identified in the laboratory. Such organisms are said to be fastidious because they have demanding growth requirements. Some pathogens responsible for culture-negative endocarditis include Aspergillus species, Brucella species, Coxiella burnettii, Chlamydia species, and HACEK bacteria.\n\nFinally, the distinction between native-valve endocarditis and prosthetic-valve endocarditis is clinically important.\n\n[edit]\nAetiology and pathogenesis\nAs previously mentioned, altered blood flow around the valves is a risk factor in obtaining endocarditis. The valves may be damaged congenitally, from surgery, by auto-immune mechanisms, or simply as a consequence of old age. The damaged part of a heart valve becomes covered with a blood clot, a condition known as non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE).\n\nIn a healthy individual, a bacteraemia (where bacteria get into the blood stream through a minor cut or wound) would normally be cleared quickly with no adverse consequences. If a heart valve is damaged and covered with a piece of a blood clot, the valve provides a place for the bacteria to attach themselves and an infection can be established.\n\nThe bacteraemia is often caused by minor dental procedures, such as a tooth removal. It is important that a dentist is told of any heart problems before commencing.\n\nAnother group of causes result from a high number of bacteria getting into the bloodstream. Colorectal cancer, serious urinary tract infections and IV drug use, can all introduce large numbers of bacteria. With a large number of bacteria, even a normal heart valve may be infected. A more virulent organism (such as Staphylococcus aureus) is usually responsible for infecting a normal valve.\n\nIntravenous drug users tend to get their right heart valves infected because the veins that are injected enter the right side of the heart. The injured valve is most commonly affected when there is a pre-existing disease. (In rheumatic heart disease this is the aortic and the mitral valves, on the left side of the heart.)\n\n[edit]\nClinical and pathological features\nFever (often spiking) \nContinuous presence of micro-organisms in the bloodstream determined by serial collection of blood cultures \nVegetations on valves on echocardiography \nSeptic emboli, causing circulatory problems (stroke, gangrene of fingers) \nChronic renal failure \nOsler's nodes (painf
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Pseudomonas is a bacteria which causes infection. It's often found in wounds, but also in respiratory tract (chest) infections. It's treated with antibiotics either in or out of hospital. If you've seen this on a lab report after sending in a sample, it means that when the lab cultured the sample pseudomonas grew on it, which means that the sample was infected by it. The sample could have been a swab, or a urine or phlegm sample. As this is the respiratory section I'm assuming it was a sputum (phlegm) sample, this would mean that you have a pseudomonas infection in your chest. Now they know what organism is causing the infection (pseudomonas), you can be prescribed the correct antibiotics to treat it. Hope this helps.
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Sepsis (in Greek Σήψις, putrefaction) is a serious medical condition caused by a severe infection. The more critical subsets of sepsis include severe sepsis (sepsis with acute organ dysfunction) and septic shock (sepsis with refractory arterial hypotension). If a proven source of infection is lacking but the other criteria of sepsis are met the condition typically meets the criteria for systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS); the exception is the condition greater than 10% band forms (this is not a part of the SIRS definition).\n\nSepticemia is sepsis of the bloodstream caused by bacteremia, which is the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream. The term septicemia is also used to refer to sepsis in general.\nSepsis can occur when there is an invasive procedure, any surgery, if the wounds are not properly tended to, or it can result from any infection in the body going untreated and teh bacteria growing out of control
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Mycobacterium ranae is a bacterium that sometimes causes disease in frogs (rana is the Latin word for frog). It is spread through the water, and enters the frog through skin abrasions or cuts.
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No.  Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis, a slow-growing bacteria that thrives in areas of the body that are rich in blood and oxygen, such as the lungs.
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White blood cells fight infection.  You can eat yogurt with active yeast cultures, this gives the body good bacteria to fight off bad bacteria in the body.  ie: yeast infections.
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kill bacteria and viruses in the bloodstream
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bacteria,no question of doubt
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Single cell organisms don't have blood. Blood is a transportation system, bringing O2 and nutrients to cells, whilst taking away CO2 and waste. Since a Single cell organism can get what it needs from its immediate surroundings, it does not need a transport system, so it does not need blood.
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The previous presence of the bacteria causes the body to produce an antibody for the particular bacteria and increases immunity to later infections by the same non-mutated bacteria.
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There are loads to describe. Bacteria and viruses. What are the difference? I can tell you viruses always mutates and could harm you and need cells to depend on while bacteria multiply themselves in the bloodstream and they can harm you but unlike viruses they can also benefit you.
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No- a virus and other bacteria need certain requirements to stay alive, so cannot stay alive outside the body for very long, and if blood is dry, it cannot survive.