BACTERIAL MENINGITIS BY JAY DOMANTAY JAY DOMANTAY ANATOMY 151 HERBERT MAY 11‚ 2009 BACTERIAL MENINGITIS A bacterial infection of blood poisoning in the meninges called bacterial meningitis affects toddlers‚ adolescents and young adults. The infection strikes nearly 3‚000 Americans each year‚ and 10 to 12% of those infected will die. Among those who survive‚ approximately 20 % live with permanent disabilities‚ such as brain damage‚ kidney disease‚ hearing loss or loss of limbs.(“Prevention
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The identification of an unknown bacterial environmental isolate through a series of morphological‚ physiological and differential exercises. The purpose of the environmental isolate report is to learn what is necessary in order to take an unknown environmental isolate (EI) and identify it. This was achieved through a series of exercises that provided information on the morphological‚ physiological and biochemical traits of the EI which were then compiled and interpreted in order to make a presumptive
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conjunctivitis can occur in one or two of a person’s eyes. It tends to cause a watery discharge while conjunctivitis caused by bacteria causes a thicker discharge. Both are transmitted to another eye in the discharge. Children are primarily affected by bacterial conjunctivitis‚ possibly because it is more transferable in a location like school. People are at a higher risk of developing conjunctivitis if they use contacts. Those who come in
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Key Ideas Conflict Transformation Chapter 1: “Conflict transformation is based on two verifiable realities: conflict is normal in human relationships and conflict is a motor change.” (4) I have understood for a long time that conflict is a normal part of being a human‚ without conflict there would be no order or balance‚ but I did not really understand what he meant when he said conflict is a motor change. Is he meaning as a motor change conflict transformation is psychological change in thought
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Bacterial biosensors for victual processing The biosensor research has blossomed into a mature and highly active field over the past 20 years‚ mutually in the laboratory and in the business-related district‚ attract huge attention due to the pledge of holdings for vital aspects of the human life. The wished-for work aims to engineer a capacitive biosensor‚ which will be able to perform label-free and fast electrochemically immune-detection based on very small biological samples. This
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“He became as good a friend‚ as good a master‚ as good a man as the good old city knew…” Discuss Scrooge’s transformation in A Christmas Carol. In Charles Dickens’ novella ‘A Christmas Carol’‚ Ebenezer Scrooge’s transforms himself from an undesirable‚ self-centred old man to a gentleman with characterisations to exemplify that the most valuable things in life are those which are not tangible; family‚ friends‚ love and happiness. The protagonist had the ability to help the unfortunate and deprived
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The call by some senior members of the African National Congress for the transformation of the Judiciary doesn’t compromise judicial independence Introduction In the trias politica‚ every arm of government has equal power compared to other arms of the government. However‚ to make sure that all the arms of government in the trias politica have equal powers they must be accountable to each other. That means they must implement the oversight to one another so that no arm of government ends up with
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Many works of art have hidden influence in them stemming out from all parts of the world. With these influences come themes tied to each type of work. The Warrior and Transformation Mask are just a couple examples of this. The Warrior was created in between 900-400 BC‚ created by the Olmec‚ it was one of the many giant heads found all over the Olmec area usually brought over land and along rivers. They are thought to be created to honor specific rulers and are a testament to his power. Approximately
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these micro-organisms were present and how widespread and abundant they were. Method: In the experiment‚ there were 3 environments in which agar plates were used to get bacteria and fungi. Environment No.1 was inside the lab with the laboratory air‚ environment No.2 was outside the lab in the open air and environment No.3 was taken from scalp scrapings from the students involved. In environment 1‚ 6 agar plates were produced. The 6 plates were separated into groups of 2. Each group of 2 was exposed
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Brittany Exam 3 Essay 9 Dec 2012 Transformations of the American West The three most important transformations of the American West were the completion of the railway system‚ economically‚ the diversity of the people‚ socially‚ and the conservation of land‚ politically. All of these transformations have made an unmistakable impact of the American West and what it is today. The largest economic transformation in American Western history was the building of the railroad systems. It was the
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