A 35 year old male comes to see you with pain in the back of his neck. As you ex

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A 35 year old male comes to see you with pain in the back of his neck. As you examine him, you see a hard red knot, about the size of a golf ball. It is swollen and very, very painful. It has purulent material inside it (pus) He also has a low grade temperature.

A. The pathogen that most likely caused this hardened mass is

1. Streptococcus pyogens

2. Staphylococcus epidermidis

3. Neisseria meningitides

4. Staphylococcus aureus

5. Treponema pallidum

B. The proper treatment for this malady would be to

1. hospitalize this patient and treat with IV antibiotics

2. tell him to take something for his temperature, and this will go away

3. using sterile technique, lance this mass and evacuate the contents

4. tell the patient to soak this area with hot soaks and it will go away

5. put him on amoxicillin, and tell him to call if it doesn't get any better

C. You diagnose this mass as a

1. tumor unknown orgin

2. erysipelas

3. carbuncle

4. folliculitis

5. none of the above

This is Microbiology I don't know which one to pick from all the science classes.

Explanation / Answer

A. staphylococcus aureus mostely caused by hardening mass

B. hospatilise the pateints and given the antibiotics Penicillinase-resistant penicillins (flucloxacillin, dicloxacillin) remain the antibiotics of choice for the management of serious methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) infections, but first generation cephalosporins (cefazolin, cephalothin and cephalexin), clindamycin, lincomycin and erythromycin have important

C  carbuncle is a cluster of boils caused by bacterial infection, most commonly with Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes

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