AnswersDriveA secondary infection is an infection that occurs during or after treatment for another infection. It may be caused by the first treatment or by changes in the immune system. Two examples of a secondary infection are: A vaginal yeast infection after taking antibiotics to treat an infection caused by bacteria.
What is secondary fungal infection?
Secondary bacterial and fungal infections should be treated with antiseptics, antibiotics, or antifungals, depending on the pathogens. Intertrigo is the clinical description of a cutaneous inflammatory process on opposing skin surfaces. The condition is most commonly found in the groin, axillae, and inframammary folds.
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Can a bacterial infection turn into a viral infection?
In certain circumstances a viral infection can 'turn into' a bacterial infection (usually because if you have congestion that lingers too long, it gets infected). This is known as a secondary infection and should be treated with antibiotics. Fever is higher than you might normally expect from a virus.
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Is bronchitis a bacterial or viral infection?
Acute bronchitis is normally caused by viruses, typically those that also cause colds and flu. It can also be caused by bacterial infection and exposure to substances that irritate the lungs, such as tobacco smoke, dust, fumes, vapors, and air pollution.
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What is secondary healing?
It is also called “primary union” or “first intention healing.” An example of wound healing by primary intention is a surgical incision. Second Intention Healing – A wound that is extensive and involves considerable tissue loss, and in which the edges cannot be brought together heals in this manner.
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What is a secondary chest infection?
Acute bronchitis can cause a secondary infection in your lungs. The lungs can be weakened by the original infection and become more vulnerable to secondary infection by bacteria. If you develop a secondary infection, it can be more serious than acute bronchitis. It can usually be treated with antibiotics.
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What is a secondary pneumonia?
Secondary bacterial pneumonia occurs after the patient has begun to recover from influenza infection, and often influenza virus can no longer be isolated. Five days later, Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria are administered by the same route.
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What is the definition of systemic infection?
Systemic means affecting the entire body, rather than a single organ or body part. For example, systemic disorders, such as high blood pressure, or systemic diseases, such as the flu, affect the entire body. An infection that is in the bloodstream is called a systemic infection.
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What is secondary bacterial pneumonia?
In some individuals, an influenza A virus infection can cause asymptomatic Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) to travel to the lungs where it can trigger severe, sometimes deadly, secondary pneumonia. S. aureus is one of the most common causes of secondary bacterial pneumonia in cases of seasonal influenza.
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Is common cold caused by a virus or bacteria?
Some people do not suffer any symptoms when infected with the cold virus, perhaps because their immune system reacts differently to the virus. Sometimes, bacteria can infect the ears or sinuses during this viral infection — this is known as a secondary bacterial infection — and can be treated with antibiotics.
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What is meant by mixed infection?
A range of viruses and bacteria (as well as parasites) can infect the human alimentary canal. Mixed infections of viruses and bacteria are not uncommon, and quite complex physiological changes can result from such infections.
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Is the influenza A virus or bacteria?
Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus. Complications of influenza may include viral pneumonia, secondary bacterial pneumonia, sinus infections, and worsening of previous health problems such as asthma or heart failure.
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What is an inapparent infection?
The carrier state may exist in an individual with an infection that is inapparent throughout its course (commonly known as healthy or asymptomatic carrier), or during the incubation period, convalescence and postconvalescence of an individual with a clinically recognizable disease (commonly known as an incubatory or
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Is scarlet fever a bacterial disease?
Scarlet fever – or scarlatina – is a bacterial infection caused by group A Streptococcus or “group A strep.” These bacteria cause many types of infections, including strep throat and skin infections. Scarlet fever is usually a mild illness that most commonly affects children between 5 and 15 years old.
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Is the flu a bacterial infection?
The flu is caused by an infection with the influenza virus, which mainly attacks the upper respiratory tract -- the nose, throat and bronchi and rarely also the lungs. However, a main cause of death in people having the flu is actually a secondary infection with bacteria.
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What is a contagious infection?
A contagious disease is a subset category of transmissible diseases, which are transmitted to other persons, either by physical contact with the person suffering the disease, or by casual contact with their secretions or objects touched by them or airborne route among other routes.
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Is flu caused by a virus or bacteria?
The flu is a viral infection caused by the influenza virus, a respiratory virus. The common cold is also a viral infection caused by the adenovirus or coronavirus and there are many, many subsets with a lot of variability. The flu is known to be from influenza and is preventable with vaccination.
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Is Lyme disease caused by a bacterial infection?
Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected blacklegged ticks. Typical symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic skin rash called erythema migrans.
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Is strep throat a bacterial infection?
The cause of strep throat is bacteria known as Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as group A streptococcus. Streptococcal bacteria are highly contagious. They can spread through airborne droplets when someone with the infection coughs or sneezes, or through shared food or drinks.
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What is a latent infection?
Virus latency (or viral latency) is the ability of a pathogenic virus to lie dormant (latent) within a cell, denoted as the lysogenic part of the viral life cycle. Latency is the phase in certain viruses' life cycles in which, after initial infection, proliferation of virus particles ceases.
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What is focal bacterial infection?
focal infection. Word Origin. See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com noun Pathology, Dentistry. an infection in which bacteria are localized in some region, as the tonsils or the tissue around a tooth, from which they may spread to some other organ or structure of the body.
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Is hepatitis caused by bacteria?
Causes. Causes of hepatitis can be divided into the following major categories: infectious, metabolic, ischemic, autoimmune, genetic, and other. Infectious agents include viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Toxins, drugs, alcohol, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease are metabolic causes of liver injury and inflammation