Case Study Meningitis

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The following case study is about a lab technician who got in contact with a patients spinal fluids and began felling different symptoms like chills, fever, nausea, even had purple-red lesions on his or her neck and extremities, also throat culture grew gram-negative diplococci. From reading the case study again, I realized that the lab technician had purple-red lesions and also had something to do with spinal fluids which strongly prompt me to lead towards Meningococcemia infection. Meningococcemia infection is a serious disease that can effect the whole body but particularly the limbs and brain. Most patients with Meningococcemia may present Meningitis alone, these symptoms may include headache, sore throat, nausea and purpuric lesions all over the body. Meningitis is a disease that is the immflamuation of …show more content…

This genus is known as coccus because its round but also diplococcus because its forms pairs. The well known genus is contracted by saliva and respiratory secretions such as sneezing and kissing. The cell gets infected by the genus sticking on to it with long extensions which then the surface exposes protein. When looking over my case study I realized that the lab technician got in contact with the patient spinal fluid which was Meningococcal infection. This is a infection that surrounds the brain and spinal cord and when the lab technician got in contact with the bacteria Neisseria meningitis it must have got in it into his or her blood stream and cause Meningococcemia infection, because this bacteria can be transmitted through person to person it caused the lab technician to start developing chills, fever, nausea, knowing that Neisseria meningitis is the cause of Meningitis led the lab technician to form the purple-red lesion. This infection occurs about 2% in kids younger than two years of age, 5% of children up to seventeen years of age and about 20-40% of young adults are carries which causes the morality rate to be very high to about 90% and

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