Medical history (history of illness) represents an important component in the diagnosis of staphylococcal disease.
Family history
- What is the general health of your family members?
Social history
- What is your profession?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- Do you suffer from treatment-resistant wound infections or abscesses?
- Do you have treatment-resistant respiratory infections?
- Do you have treatment-resistant urinary tract infections?
- Do you have a fever?
Vegetative history including nutritional history.
- Do you smoke? If yes, how many cigarettes, cigars, or pipes per day? If you are now a nonsmoker: When did you quit smoking and how many years did you smoke?
- Do you drink alcohol? If so, what drink(s) and how many glasses of it per day?
- Do you use drugs? If yes, what drugs and how often per day or per week?
Self-history
- Pre-existing conditions including hospitalizations
- Operations
- Radiotherapy
- Vaccination status
- Allergies
- Pregnancies
- Environmental history
Medication history
- Immunosuppressants
