UCSD Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria Question

AddieHunting the Nightmare Bacteria (Frontline Oct. 2013 54:11)
1. What did doctors believe Addie was infected with initially? What were her symptoms?
2. Addie had ‘community-acquired’ resistant staph (as opposed to hospital-acquired). How did Addy
likely become infected initially?
3. What secondary infection did Addie acquire in the hospital? How did she acquire it?
4. What does pan-resistant mean?
5. What have been the lasting effects of Addie’s infections?
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6. How was David Ricci injured in India?
7. He was infected with CRE (carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae). What gene invokes this
type of resistance?
8. Are bacteria with the NDM-1 gene found in the environment?
9. If a spreading infection cannot be cured, what has to happen?
Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
10. Where do many Gram negative bacteria live in the body?
11. In 2008, a patient in ICU was diagnosed with KPC (Klebsiella pnuemoniae carbapenemaseproducing) at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Five weeks after the
patient was released, KPC turned up in a respiratory culture. Do they know how it was spread?
Were they able to get rid of it at that time?
In March 2013, The CDC finally raised the alarm about antimicrobial resistance. March 2013, Obama put $60 million
in the resistance program in the proposed budget (doubled the funding). **With proposed decreased funding for
science-based programs by the Trump Administration, it may be difficult to move forward on this problem.**