Test 2 Topic IV: Infection/Wound Table 31-2 Nosocomial Infections Site Most common Microorganisms Causes Urinary Tract Escherichia coli‚ Enterococcus species. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Improper catheterization technique‚ contamination of closed drainage system‚ inadequate hand cleansing Surgical sites Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA). Enterococcus species (including VRE). Pseudomonas aeruginosa Inadequate hand cleansing‚ improper dressing change technique Bloodstream Coagulase-negative
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Current Research in Microbiology and Biotechnology Vol. 1‚ No. 3 (2013): 98-103 Research Article Open Access ISSN: 2320-2246 Study of Citronella leaf based herbal mosquito repellents using natural binders Nandini Rani‚ Aakanksha Wany‚ Ambarish Saran Vidyarthi and Dev Mani Pandey* Department of Biotechnology‚ Birla Institute of Technology‚ Mesra‚ Jharkhand- 835215‚ India * Corresponding author: Dev Mani Pandey‚ email: dmpandey@bitmesra.ac.in Received: 15 April 2013 Accepted: 27 April
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THE SEARCH FOR BETTER HEALTH 1.What is a healthy organism? Discuss the difficulties in defining the terms ‘health’ and ‘disease’ * Health – state of physical‚ mental and social wellbeing. It is not just absence of disease * disease – any condition which effects the functioning of any part of a living organism * difficulties in defining health and disease; * health 1) the definition of health varies with age eg stiffness in the joints is probably more common in a 90yo
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Day 1: Biology of Animals Deuterostomes develop anus from blastopore Protostomes develop mouth from blastopore. Presentation: Overview of Prokaryotes‚ Protists‚ and Fungi I. Prokaryotes (ex. Bacteria) Characteristics -Unicellular -Small (0.5-5um) -Know shapes (ex. Spherical rod shaped and spiral) cocci‚ spirilla‚ bacilli -Cell wall‚ salt‚ peptidoglycan‚ Gram stain‚ virulence. Gram positive bacteria take up the Gram stain and turn purple‚ peptidoglycan traps crystal violet‚ very
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List of the entire famous scientist Alessandro Volta(1745-1827) An Italian Physicist who was a pioneer in the development of electricity. He created the first electric battery in 1800. This battery gave the world its first continuous‚ reliable source of electric current‚ and led to all important discoveries of the use of electricity. The unit of measuring electromotive force (emf)‚ Volt(v) is named after him. He also proposed the law that the air expands at a constant rate with increasing temperature
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EVALUATION OF MAINTENANCE CULTURE OF CHRISTIAN CATHEDRAL CHURCH BUILDINGS BY OLAYINKA JOHN AJAYI NOVEMBER‚ 2012 ABSTRACT The study focused on maintenance culture of cathedral church buildings in Lagos Mainland Area of Lagos State Nigeria. It also assessed the operational state of these church buildings within the study area. In achieving these objectives‚ opinions of maintenance officers and users of selected cathedral church buildings were sampled through structured questionnaires. The
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Chapter 1: May/June 06 1 What is the resolution‚ in nanometres‚ of an electron microscope and of a light microscope? A electron microscope 0.5 light microscope 20 B 0.5 200 C 5.0 20 D 5.0 200 2 The diagram shows a drawing of an electron micrograph of a cell. Which structures are surrounded by double membranes? Golgi apparatus lysosome mitochondrion nucleus cytoplasm A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ B ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ C ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ D ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ 3 In which animal cells would Golgi apparatus be most abundant
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Melissa Babajko Microbiology 214BA Dr. May June 6‚ 2012 Staphylococcus aureus- Is a facultative anaerobic‚ Gram-positive‚ salt positive‚ cocci shaped bacterium. Staphylococcus aureus is found as normal part of the skin floral in the nasal passages and on the skin. An estimated twenty percent of people naturally have harmless Staphylococcus aureus on their skin and are long-term carries for Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common strand of Staphylococcus in humans to date
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1.0 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background information The term `Malaria ’ originates from Medieval Italian Mala aria which mean “bad air”; and the disease was formerly called Ague or Marsh fever due to its association with swamps and marshland‚ (Watkins‚ 2001). Scientific studies on Malaria made their first significant advance in 1880‚ when Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran a French army doctor working in the military hospital of Constantine in Algeria observed malaria plasmodium parasites inside
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Biology‚ 7e (Campbell) Chapter 24: The Origin of Species Chapter Questions 1) Which of the following applies to both anagenesis and cladogenesis? A) branching B) increased diversity C) speciation D) more species E) adaptive radiation Answer: C Topic: Concept 24.1 Skill: Comprehension 2) Which of the following statements about species‚ as defined by the biological species concept‚ is (are) correct? I. Biological species are defined by reproductive isolation. II. Biological
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