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Cracks or fissures |
Most common bacterial infections in the nose are due to... |
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Sinuses |
These are usually sterile (in this region) |
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Coagulase Negative Staph and Viridans Strep |
Two common microbes that are normal flora of the nose. |
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Dacron |
What the swab used for nasal specimens is made of. |
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Sinusitis |
This starts as the common cold, but goes on to have inflammed sinuses leading to blockage of mucous. |
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Bacteria multiply |
What happens when mucous is backed up in the sinuses without drainage. |
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Sinusitis |
Symptoms include a headache in the morning, upper jaw and tooth ache, and the cheeks are tender to the touch. |
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Sinusitis |
Symptoms include pain when forehead is touched in area of frontal sinuses, swelling of the eyelids and tissues around eyes and between them. |
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Sinusitis |
Symptoms include a loss of smell, stuffy nose, neck pain, earaches, and the top of your head aching deeply. |
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Sinusitis |
Symptoms include fever, malaise, night cough, nasal congestion, post nasal drip etc. |
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S. pneumoniae |
Causes 7% of acute and subacute cases of sinusitis. |
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H. influenzae |
Leading cause of sinusitis, usually not encapsulated, and cause 20-25% of adult cases and 36-40% of kids cases. |
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M. catarrhalis |
Causes 2-16% of sinusitis cases in kids, but does not occur frequently in adults. |
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K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter |
Can sometimes cause surgery where the surgeon goes in and scrapes away material and cultures it. |
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Atropic rhinitis |
This is caused by squamous metaplasia where the squamous cells in the nose start growing uncontrollably. This leads to atrophy causing the nose to become filled with foul smelling crusts. These crusts may cause children to be ostracized. |
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Atropic rhinitis |
Nasal crusting, loss of smell, and a widening of the nasal cavities are all characteristic of. |
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Klebsiella ozaenae |
This rare isolate is often attributed to infections of atropic rhinits. |
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Atropic rhinitis |
Treatment for this includes sewing a child's nose shut to cause lack of exposure to air in order to help the mucosa to regenerate. |
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Rhinoscleroma |
This is a chronic granulomatous condition that is often seen in immigrants and is endemic in Central America, Egypt, Tropical Africa, India, and Indonesia. |
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Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis |
This microbe causes rhinoscleroma and is contracted by inhalation of contaminated droplets or airborne material. It will impair cellular immunity where it has infected, but humoral immunity stays intact. |
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Rhinoscleroma |
Symptoms include nasal obstruction, nasal deformity, numbness in the soft palate, difficulty breathing, and voice impairment. |
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Epistaxis |
Nose bleeds |
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Dysphagia |
Difficulty swallowing |
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Dysphonia |
Voice impairment |
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Anosmia |
Loss of the sense of smell |
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Rhinoscleroma |
Symptoms include difficulty swallowing, voice impairment, loss of smell, and rhinorrhea. |
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Rhinorrhea |
Really bad runny nose |
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Rhinoscleroma |
This disease can commonly migrate to other parts of the respiratory system from the nose including the nasopharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, oral cavity, soft tissues of the lips and nose and rarely to the eye. |
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BAP |
Plate specimens collected from the lower nasal passages on. |
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BAP, CHOC, and sometimes MAC |
Plate specimens from the sinus on. |
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Surgery specimens |
Only plate these specimens anaerobically. |
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