Ida is a 45-year-old woman who comes into the emergency department complaining of painful swelling, drainage and redness in her arm over the past 5 days. She spends a lot of time outdoors and she said she had a pretty nasty mosquito bite on her arm, before swelling started. Three days after, because the increase in the swelling, pain and redness, she went to her doctor, who prescribed an antibiotic for a probable mild infection from the insect bite. Now, she came to the hospital because her arm is getting worse, and she had a fever this morning. Laboratory tests showed an increase in neutrophils (White blood cells) to 18,000 The culture of the wound grew Staphylococcus aureus, resistant to the penicillin (ampicillin) she was taken. From the reading: a. Outline the process that occurred in Ida’s body b. What is the probable source of the infection? c. What are the potential complications from the infection?
