Intro to Microbiology: Gram stain: Gram + Gram - Exotoxin Except Listeria has endotoxin Endotoxin Except Capsules Strep pneumo VERY Dangerous: (Some Strange Killers Have Pretty Nice Capsules) 1. Salmonella 2. Strep 3. Kleibsiella 4. Hemophilus B 5. Pseudomonas 6. Nisseria-(largest capsule- most likely cause of any toxicity) 7. Citroacter Gram (+) Gram (-) N-acetyl muramic acid (Nam) + N-acetyl glucosamine (Nag) = Peptidoglycan wall Contains
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healthy bathed together. The baths were cleaned out about every two weeks‚ so those viruses were spread throughout the baths‚ multiplying every moment of the day. Many of the diseases spread in Rome were deadly‚ such as malaria‚ tuberculosis‚ typhoid fever‚ and gastroentitis. The most deadly diseases in Rome were affected by temperature‚ which causes seasonal plagues. The Fall of Rome Poor political Leadership Gracelyn Gutierrez Rome‚ originally quite small‚ was then a vast area‚ spreading from
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Symptoms of sepsis are usually nonspecific and include fever‚ chills‚ and constitutional symptoms of fatigue‚ malaise‚ anxiety‚ or confusion.[12] These symptoms are not pathognomonic for infection and may also be observed in a wide variety of noninfectious inflammatory conditions. In addition‚ they may be absent in patients with serious infections‚ especially in elderly individuals. Because systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)‚ sepsis‚ septic shock‚ and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
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Chronic & Communicable Diseases Objectives Discuss & give examples of chronic diseases. Define communicable diseases & explain their significance. Discuss disease transmission. Explain how communicable disease is transmitted by: a. intestinal discharges. b. nose & throat discharges. c. zoonoses (animals) Discuss the disease spread by vectors and their control measures. Environmental Impacts Paradigm: Exposure-Response (EIA : EHIA) Exposure - def: any condition
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persons and compared with a random sample of half the available medical records for persons who had tested negative 31 of 67 persons -Among the 28 people who tested positive‚ illness onset occurred during August 26-October 6. -Symptoms included fever‚ headache‚ myalgia‚ and pharyngitis. -Three persons attended one school‚ six persons were employees of the hospital; no other common exposures were reported. Defensive measures against Mononucleosis -Wash hands frequently -Avoid close contact
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for much ill health as well as many deaths. Symptoms If you start to develop cold symptoms but starting more rapidly and rather more violently‚ with higher fever and severe aches and pains‚ often in the back and muscles‚ then you may well be developing influenza. This may be associated with severe headache‚ cough‚ and‚ as a result of the fever‚ intermittent sweating and shivering. Sometimes there is a gastrointestinal element‚ with vomiting and/or diarrhoea. Many people think they have had "flu" when
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infection. Two of the most common viral infections it precedes is influenza‚ "the flu"‚ and chicken pox. A now-familiar warning on bottles of aspirin‚ most notably Tylenol‚ is not to give Tylenol to a child who is recovering from the chicken pox‚ a fever‚ or any other viral infection. The link between aspirin and Reye’s Syndrome and is not fully understood‚ but all reported cases of Reye’s Syndrome include a child who has received aspirin before infection. Symptoms of Reye’s Syndrome may
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surgery and the recovery of his leg that he bashed in a softball game. So they went down to Greenly Colorado for a pastor board meeting in February of 2003‚ but the family made it into a family vacation too. Before the trip Colton was running a high fever and was throwing up but right before the trip it stopped. That is a sign of the appendix bursting soon‚ but they did not know that. Then during dinner it came back and he was throwing up uncontrollably. They then rushed him to the doctor to find that
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Medical Issues of WWI During World War I‚ there were many issues that surrounded the health of troops. The lack of medical advancement and the knowledge of it‚ then the struggle of keeping ones self-healthy throughout combat were key points to survival. During World War I in less than a year‚ American troops suffered more than 318‚000 injuries 120‚000 were counted as casualties. The front line soldiers are always at the highest risk in any war. With World War I though‚ trench warfare was a dangerous
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A 62-year old diabetic black man presents in the emergency room with a swollen left leg with areas of blanching and blue mottling. A "foul odor" is coming from a dressed wound. The physicians remove the dressing and a brownish fluid is seeping from a wounded area. The fluid contains what appear to be small bits of the tissue. No pus appears to be present. The wound has a strong "rotten" odor. Five days earlier‚ while at his work as a farmer‚ he caught the leg in his manure spreader‚ sustaining a
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