invasive meningococcal disease Rabab Z Jafri1‚ Asad Ali1*‚ Nancy E Messonnier2‚ Carol Tevi-Benissan3‚ David Durrheim4‚5‚ Juhani Eskola6‚ Florence Fermon7‚ Keith P Klugman8‚9‚ Mary Ramsay10‚ Samba Sow11‚12‚ Shao Zhujun13‚ Zulfiqar A Bhutta1 and Jon Abramson14 Abstract Neisseria meningitidis is one of the leading causes of bacterial meningitis globally and can also cause sepsis‚ pneumonia‚ and other manifestations. In countries with high endemic rates‚ the disease burden places an immense
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Cardiovascular Disease Ashley Cookie Cardiac Arrest Mr. Stapleton November 20th‚ 2012 Would you like to feel or be close to death? How would you like to have your heart pump rapidly out of control? A cardiac Arrest is the absence of ventricular contraction that results in systemic circulatory failure. A Cardiac Arrest is something that can happen out of nowhere without you knowing. You can be cooking and you just collapse and go into Cardiac Arrest. It’s that easy!
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Description Huntington disease is a hereditary disease that causes the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. Huntington disease‚ or hereditary chorea‚ has an extensive impact on a person ’s functional abilities and usually results in movement‚ perceptive and psychiatric disorders (Walker‚ 2007). It is named after the American physician George Huntington‚ who provided one of the first descriptions of the disease in 1872 (Huntington‚ 1872). The disease causes nerve cells in the brain to die which
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and functions. If the genes in your body mutate effecting the mitochondrial your body will work differently. I was in 7th grade‚ in the hospital sick again when I began to learn about what was causing my illness. Since then the mitochondria has interested me but when I was recently diagnosed with mitochondrial disease I realized just how important the organelle is to your body. The mitochondrial produces ATP which is released into your body as energy‚ but when your mitochondrion is damaged like mine
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1944 the families were sent to Auschwitz‚ however they did not actually arrive till September 6th. The Van Daans‚ as well as Mr and Mrs. Frank stayed at his camp. However in October Anne and margot were sent to another camp‚ (Bergen-Belsen concentration camp). At Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a sickness called typhus was going around in March. Typhus is a that disease occurs after bacteria is transferred to humans usually by vectors such as fleas or lice that have acquired the bacteria from animals
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It is a broken wrist that involves a break of the forearm bone or radius bone on the side of the wrist that is near your thumb. What causes the broken wrist is falling onto an outstretched hand. It is said that “The fracture is almost always within an inch of the wrist joint‚ and may extend into the joint.” The fracture types can be described as either intra-articular‚ and extra-articular
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Name:__________________________ House:_________________________ Teacher: Tick the box against your class and teacher(s): Mr. Bowen Mr. O’Hara Unit 3 Physics Trial Exam Semester 1‚ 2013 Reading Time: 15 minutes Examination Time: 1 hour 30 minutes QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK Section A – Structures and Materials B – Motion • • Structure of book Number of Number of Marks Questions 35 35 9 55 Total 90 Suggested Times (minutes) 45 45 90 Students are permitted to
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glowing rectangles taking away from adolescents social and emotional health?"( ) Not only glowing rectangles‚ which are cell phones‚ there are also computer screens and televisions that take away a child’s mind into another world. This is screen time. What is screen time? Screen time is when a child (or adult) sits in front of a screen for a certain amount of hours or minutes that they should be doing other things‚ like going outside and talking to real people‚ not ones behind the screen. Imagine a world
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ethical dilemma in relation to the professional and ethical issues regarding Mr. Windown’s health. The case involves a 82 year old patient‚ Mr.Windown who was admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) after he experiences a significant complication from his cardiac bypass surgery as he unfortunately suffers from a intra-operative stroke‚ which has left him incapable of making healthcare decisions of his own. Before surgery‚ Mr. Windown’s current health status was going downhill as he currently suffered
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Stargardt disease is an inherited disease that leads to blindness. This disease occurs around 1 in every 10‚000 children and is an autosomal recessive disease‚ therefore only being able to trace which parent has it‚ once the child has been confirmed whether or not to have this disease. It is caused by mascular degeneration‚ which eventually leads to blindness. Mascular degeneration is where the mascular part of the retina‚ where there are the most light-receptors‚ rods and cones (that are used for
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