what is a bacterial infection?
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something goes wrong to your surgery treatment, don't leave it
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Could be an infection.
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A slightly elevated amount of white cells (not red) in your blood. This might be due to an infection.
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First, why it can be bad. Antibiotics are substances that kill bacteria; penecillin is one of the most famous. They help the body by killing bacteria that are causing an infection. But they don't work against viruses. Sometimes it's hard to tell if a virus or bacteria is causing an illness. Bacteria can become immune to antibiotics, just like people can develop a tolerance to medicines and they don't work like they should. When bacteria become immune to an antibiotic, that means that the antibiotic won't be effective at killing that strain of bacteria. So the next person who needs an antibiotic for that strain of bacteria needs a different (and usually stronger) antibiotic. If bacteria get immune to enough antibiotics, they can cause serious outbreaks that people won't be able to deal with. But there's sort-of good news: there are many strains of bacteria out there. Although that means many chances of infection, it also means that people will get different strains (and different strains mean different medicines and different susceptibilities to antibiotics). If a bacteria strain is immune to some of the strongest antibiotics available, then it would be a super-bacteria, causing potentially millions of deaths world-wide.\n\nDoctors prescribe antibotics for a number of reasons. A lot of people don't feel like their doctor visit was worthwhile unless they get a prescription to help them feel better. Sometimes it's hard to tell if a virus or a bacteria is causing the problem. Sometimes doctors prescribe antibiotics for virus illnesses because they think that it will help kill any bacteria in the body, so the immune system can focus on the virus infection.
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your body is susceptible to infection.
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Above is a good wikipedia article.  The simplest way to define infection is that it requires an invasion of a microorganism (bacteria, virus, fungus, etc.) into a space within the body, where no microbes should exist.  Furthermore, such invasion should then lead to tissue destruction and immune response of the body to meet the full definition of the term.
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Possibility of an infection. Call your doctor and have it checked out.
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viruses cause viral infections, and bacteria cause bacterial infections. But they're also different in other ways.\n\nViruses are much smaller than bacteria.\n\nViruses are not living organism so they need a host.
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Sepsis (or blood infection) is a condition in which your body is fighting a severe infection. If you become "septic," you will likely be in a state of low blood pressure termed "shock." This condition can develop either as a result of your body’s own defense system or from toxic substances made by the infecting agent (such as a bacteria, virus, or fungus).\n\n    * People at risk\n\n          o People whose immune systems (the body’s defense against microbes) are not functioning well because of an illness, such as cancer or AIDS, are more prone to have sepsis.\n\n          o Because their immune systems are not completely developed, very young babies may get sepsis if they become infected and are not treated in a timely manner. Often, if they develop signs of an infection such as fever, infants have to receive antibiotics and be admitted to the hospital.\n\n          o The elderly population, especially those with other medical illnesses such as diabetes, may be at increased risk as well.\n\nMany different microbes can cause sepsis. Although bacteria are most commonly the cause, viruses and fungi can also cause sepsis. Infections in the lungs (pneumonia), bladder and kidneys (urinary tract infections), skin (cellulitis), abdomen (such as appendicitis), and other organs (such as meningitis) can spread and lead to sepsis. Infections that develop after surgery can also lead to sepsis.\n\nSepsis Symptoms\n\n    * If you have sepsis, often you will have fever. Sometimes, though, the body temperature may be normal or even low.\n\n    * You may also have chills and severe shaking.\n\n    * Your heart may be beating very fast and your breathing rapid.\n\n    * Confusion, disorientation, and agitation may be seen as well as dizziness and decreased urination.\n\n    * Some people who have sepsis develop a rash on their skin. The rash may be a reddish discoloration or small dark red dots throughout the body.\n\n    * You may also develop pain in the joints at your wrists, elbows, back, hips, knees, and ankles.
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It's an infection, go to the doctor.
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Antibiotics are a valuable tool for fighting bacterial infections which persistantly do not resolve with your body's own Immune System.\n\nAntibacterial products have been touted to reduce infection from exposure to things you touch, wear, etc.  This is valuable for some people with compromised immune systems, but the normal healthy person really has no need for such products.\n\nIn fact, the use of those products and antibiotics are creating stronger more resistant bacteria in our environment.  With stronger more resistant bacteria comes the risk of NOT being able to get rid of an infection when one occurs.  \n\nExamples of resistant bacteria are MRSA and VRE.  These are very difficult infections to fight BECAUSE of their resistance.\n\nSo, to recap, most of the time exposure to bacteria will actually increase your immune systems ability to FIGHT that bacteria later and using too many products to kill bacteria can actually, in the end, hurt us.
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GO SEE A DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!! What you may have is Siphilis, a bacterial infection that does horrific dammage to the body if not treated. GET TESTED. SEE YOUR DOCTOR. IT CAN BE CURED, BUT NOT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.
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well,a bacterial culture,or microbial culture,is a method of growing a microbial organism to determine what it is,its abundance in the sample being tested,or both.it is one of the primary diagnostic methods of microbiology.it is often used a tool to determine the cause of infectious disease by letting the agent multiply (reproduce) in predetermined media in laboratory.\nthe most common method of microbiological culture uses Petri dishes with a layer of agar-based growth medium in them to grow bacterial cultures.this is generally done inside of an incubator.\nthe term culture can also,though infrequently and informally,be used as a synonym for tissue culture,which involves the growth of cells or tissues explanted from a multi-cellular organism.
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Antibiotics literally translates to "destroy-life".  Antibiotics are designed to remedy bacterial infection, by killing the living bacteria that causes the infection.\n\nYour doctor most likely said that you have a VIRAL infection.  This means that it is from a virus.  Viruses are not living things in the same way that bacteria are, so they cannot be killed by antibiotics.  Instead, they have to run their course as your body fights them off.\n\nTo the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as a VITAL infection, you may have just misheard or miskeyed.
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it's used to treat certain bacterial infections.  It's called an antibiotic
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Invasive=tendency to spresd, infiltrate,intrude.\nPneumococcus=a gram-positive diplococcal bacteria of the species Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most common cause of bacterial pnuemonia. more than 85 subtypes of this organism are known.\n\nTake your meds and hope you or the person you are inquiring for get better soon.
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bacteria,no question of doubt