If you live long enough, you would experience one bacteria infection or the other.
Most adults have experienced bacteria infection especially Staphylococcus aureus infection.
Staph is a very stubborn bacteria. Difficult to wipe away completely from the body once infected by it.
Staph. infection and other bacteria infections are responsible for over 50% of infertility in married couples. Infection with Staph. can cause low sperm counts and can prevent conception too.
For a pregnant woman, serious staph infection can cause miscarriage, low birth weight of the baby or even malformation of the baby.
Bacteria infection can be treated by blind treatment whereby your doctor or health care provider gives you antibiotics without performing culture and sensitivity tests through a medical laboratory. This practice is encouraged especially in emergency cases such as septicemia(severe blood bacteria infection) whereby the patient is already unconscious and waiting until lab culture result is out will mean the patient might have died before the lab result is out. It's also encouraged in community practices where there's no lab that has the capacity to perform lab culture and sensitivity tests.
However, the best way to identify a particular bacteria infection in a patient and to wipe it away completely from the patient's body system is to perform a culture and sensitivity test. This is the gold standard for the most successful treatment of bacteria infection.
In performing a culture test, a sample for test, say: urine, sputum, semen (sperm), high vaginal swab, stool, blood, wound swab, etc is collected aseptically (under sterile conditions) from the patient. Culture is done to multiply the incriminating bacteria in the infection.
Then, out of the multiplied incriminated bacteria, an isolate of the bacteria is used to do antibiotic susceptibility test(a.k.a sensitivity tests). The essence of this test is to determine which specific antibiotics would wipe off the bacteria as it will manifest in the sensitivity test. The antibiotics given to patients in treating bacteria infections are the same antibiotics used for performing this sensitivity test. A clear and wide clearance of the incriminated bacteria is seen around the antibiotics that will clear the infection when the sensitivity test is concluded
Consequently, when the patient is given any or a combination of those antibiotics that cleared the infection in the sensitivity test, the infection is equally wiped off completely from the system of the patient. That's how important culture and sensitivity tests are. And that's why it's the gold standard in the treatment of bacteria infections especially stubborn bacteria infections like Staph aureus infection.
At CHDL, we pride ourselves as a culture and sensitivity tests center of excellence boasting of a wide range of broad spectrum antibiotics for sensitivity tests not available in a regular medical laboratory.
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