P. AERUGINOSA PROVES TO BE A TOUGH FOE

Course overview

This program will inform nurses about Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a potentially untreatable hospital-acquired pathogen that causes life-threatening infections in immunocompromised patients. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to: explain how P. aeruginosa bacteria are able to escape the effects of the human immune system and antibiotics, discuss how P. aeruginosa uses bacterial communication -- cell-to-cell signaling, and identify a common hospital source of P. aeruginosa and discuss infection control measures.