Hogs can get many diseases‚ you need to know the causes‚ symptoms and treatment‚ also prevention. There are a large number of diseases that can affect a hog and this will vary from place to place depending on the area you where you live and raise hogs. Remember that so many diseases are entirely preventable as you need to keep the feed lots and houses sanitary‚ unclean and filthy lots and houses will encourage disease. African Swine Fever- This is likened to hog cholera and is the most devastating
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Canada Spees Lab 2 Prokaryotes Purpose: Performing this lab will help me better understand the characteristics of prokaryotes and compare them with eukaryotes. This lab will also help me visualize and better understand the physical description‚ and the different types of bacteria and how they stain‚ whether it be gram positive or gram negative. Hypothesis: If I read the textbook and use the resource websites‚ then I will be able to better understand prokaryotes and describe the structural characteristics
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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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Section A (20 marks) Choose the best answer. 1. Which of the following groups is not especially susceptible to foodborne illness? a. The very young b. Young adults c. The elderly d. Pregnant or lactating women 2. The cost of foodborne illness can occur in the form of: a. Medical expenses b. Loss of sales c. Legal fees and fines d. All of the above 3. CDC reports show that in most foodborne illness outbreaks‚ mishandling of the suspect food occurred
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CHAPTER 1 PRODUCTION 236250 TONNES PER YEAR OF ACETONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Acetone is a clear‚ colorless‚ volatile liquid with sweer odor. It is both the simples aliphatic ketone and the most commercially important. It has a distinctive fruity or mint-like odor and a pungent taste. It is also found naturally in plants‚ tress‚ volcanic gases‚ and forest fires and as a by product of the breakdown of body fat. Nearly all world production of acetone is via cumene peroxidation‚ as a coproduct with
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Department of Food Science and Technology College of Agriculture and Food Science Visayas State University Baybay City‚ Leyte Microbiology of Fish and Fish Products Introduction: Fish is a major staple food in most parts of the world and are second only to meat as the major animal protein in most diets. Whilst foods such as ‘meat’ form relatively well -defined groups of raw materials‚ ‘fish’ constitutes a large range of types (some sources recognise over 20‚000 identified species)‚ caught over
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Definition for antibiotic resistant bacteria: WebMD definitions: Antibiotic resistance is a type of drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive exposure to an antibiotic. Genes can be... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic-resistant_bacteria Antibiotics were designed to kill bacterium that infect us. Unfortunately‚ they are indiscriminate and also kill the good bacterium that are mostly found in the large intestinal tract. This leaves a person open to reinfection‚ or other more
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Poop Pills Article Every year millions of Americans get an infection in the stomach called Clostridium difficile (aka C-diff). There are antibiotics that can cure it but in the past they haven’t worked as well as expected. They kill off the infection but in the process it destroys good bacteria too. This can cause another infection in the future because your body isn’t powerful enough to prevent it. There are other cures to C-diff too‚ like fecal transplants. This is the process where stool from
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diff). Clostridium difficile is a type of bacteria that lives in your intestines. It generally will do no harm to the human body but‚ certain things can lead to this bacteria to grow‚ which will end up causing some serious life threatening problems. "Most people
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Case Study Luke Tudor 09 Dec 2009 Microbiology‚ Vectors and Control DMS1515 Concerns have been raised about the safety of drinking water being provided for a large temporary community. The area is remote‚ rural‚ without proper sanitation and there are limited multipurpose water resources How could you ascertain the safety of the water? Potable water is fit for consumption by humans and other animals. Water may be naturally potable‚ as is the case with pristine
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