By: Miroslava Hernandez
This article is interesting as it mentions the human
pathogen called Staphylococcus aureus that is infectious and that can survive in
environmental surfaces. There are 17 MSR strains that are clones, the one that
is health issue that happens around the world is the EMRSA-15 that was found in
the UK but travels so fast that can transmit so quickly. The study was in Egypt and they did a study
in a dental setting with around 1300 swabs from patients and the environment settings,
the bacteria that were present was the Staphylococcus with 290 specimens and
the aureus with 112. They were found
in the hands, nose, the house surfaces and in the dental clinics, the pathogen
staphylococcus can resist the antibiotics with can have mortal effects in the humans. This is
important because it more people knew about this pathogen and were educated there
would be less spreading, the dentist could implement more cleaning in their areas
such as always disinfecting the area, cleaning their tools and always use the
properly equipment with every patient. The people would clean more their
surfaces with specialized chemicals to get rid of the bacteria. The scientist
should informed more about this pathogen so that cleaning should be implemented
more worldwide with Covid-19 is already happening but cleaning should be
mandatory in all facilities.
Khairalla, A.S., Wasfi, R. & Ashour, H.M. Carriage
frequency, phenotypic, and genotypic characteristics of methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus isolated from dental health-care personnel, patients, and
environment. Sci Rep 7, 7390 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07713-8
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