could you tell me what these are,staph aureus,(MRSA), xanthomonas maltophilia, anaerobes ?? definistions?

Answer 1

Staphylococcus aureus is a species of bacteria that can cause problems such as absesses in the skin, pneumonia, and septicemia. You often hear of this when associated with hospitals (nosocomial infections). MRSA is literally methicillin resistant staph aureus which means that it is staph aureus that cannot be cured with the medicine methicillin. Xanthomonas maltophilia is a bacteria that is commonly found in the upper respiratory tract, blood, and urine of humans. It causes problems in the immune compromised (opportunistic infection). Anaerobes are organisms that live in the absence of oxygen.

Answer 2

Well, Staph(ylococcus) aureus is a bacterium that causes a variety of human infections. The first one that comes to mind is called Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome.

Xanthomonas is another bacterial genera of which maltophilia is a particular species but I'm not sure what type of infection it's associated with.

Anaerobes are organisms the either don't require (facultative) or can't tolerate (obligate) oxygen. A couple of important bacterial anaerobes in human infections are (please excuse spelling) Clostridium tetani (tetanus) and Neisseria gonorrea (guess).