Malaria Cause Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite. Symptoms The first symptoms of malaria are like having the flu. You may have: a headache aching muscles a tummy ache‚ diarrhea and vomiting – especially in children a lack of energy loss of appetite a cough Treatment There are three main treatments for Malaria doxycycline – for most adults clindamycin – for most pregnant women and children sulfadoxine with pyrimethamine (Fansidar) Cause of Leukemia For most people with leukemia‚
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Centre No. Candidate No. Paper Reference(s) Surname Paper Reference Initial(s) 7 0 4 0 7040/01 0 1 Signature Examiner’s use only London Examinations GCE Biology Ordinary Level Paper 1 Monday 10 May 2010 – Morning Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Team Leader’s use only Question Leave Number Blank 1 2 3 4 5 Materials required for examination Nil Items included with question papers Nil 6 7 8 9 Instructions to Candidates In the boxes above‚ write your centre number
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1 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY‚ PROMOTED BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA CENTRAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS BSS NATIONAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION MISSION BHARAT SEVAK SAMAJ AHE002-MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIAN ONE YEAR EXAMINATION APRIL-2013 AHE002-01 COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH AND COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS TIME: 3 Hours INSTRUCTIONS * 33 questions are there in total * Write answers to each question in proportion to the mark allotted * During the first 15 minutes read the questions carefully I. FILL IN THE BLANKS
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Trypanosoma Protozon-Trypanosoma is a genus of kinetoplastids (class Kinetoplastida)‚ a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa. E Coli-Escherichia coli is a Gram-negative gammaproteobacteria commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms Staphylococcus -Staphylococcus is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria. Under the microscope‚ they appear round‚ and form in grape-like clusters. The Staphylococcus genus includes at least 40 species. Giardia Protozon-Giardia
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Americans)‚ many other nationalities suffer from the disease. Sickle-Cell Anemia affects 8 out of 100‚000 people worldwide this is because the potentially fatal disease sickle cell anemia can also work as a sort of vaccination for another disease called malaria. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited chronic disease of the blood. In order for this disease
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Bio 315 Assignment one: Introduction http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/ntd/diseases/index.html 1. Compare and contrast Chagas disease and cysticercosis. Chagas disease cysticercosis Parasite (Worm or protozoan) protozoan worm Effects on human host Fever‚ swelling around initial infection site‚ parasites in blood‚ sometimes asymptomatic‚ rarely debilitating or life threatening problems can occur. Formation of larval cysts can occur in the muscles‚ eyes‚ brain‚ and/or spinal cord. Cysts
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It was the one of the first ever man-made insecticides that was used to regulate insect populations and increase crop yield. DDT was used by the military‚ government‚ cities‚ and even residents for gardens‚ suburb insect control‚ and to battle malaria. All its intentions seemed fantastic; no more bugs in a homeowner’s community‚ deadly diseases were beginning to become eradicated‚ and the production of crops was going to become exponentially higher. There was baggage attached to the use of DDT;
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Malaria Journal Methodology BioMed Central Open Access Limitation of using synthetic human odours to test mosquito repellents Fredros O Okumu*1‚2‚3‚ Emmanuel Titus1‚ Edgar Mbeyela1‚ Gerry F Killeen1‚4‚5 and Sarah J Moore1‚3‚5 Address: 1Biomedical and Environmental Sciences Thematic group‚ Ifakara Health Institute‚ PO Box 53 Ifakara‚ Tanzania‚ 2School of Biological Sciences‚ University of Nairobi‚ PO Box 30197 Nairobi‚ Kenya‚ 3Disease Control and Vector Biology Unit‚ London School of Hygiene
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Introduction: Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease transmitted to humans and other vertebrate hosts by the bite of infected mosquitoes. The name “Yellow” is explained by jaundice that affect some patients with symptoms’ like yellow skin and yellow eyes(http://www.who.int/csr/disease/yellowfev/en/) The YF virus is the causative agent for Yellow fever and it belongs to the virus family Flaviviridae. Single stranded RNA (11kb) present in Flavi viruses .YF virus responsible for number
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disease. One of the disease caused by mosquitoes is malaria‚ malaria is not the lone mosquito-borne disease that caused troubles during the early times. But the leading cause of malaria infection is the humans that are affected with the parasite. And with the appearance of efficient medicine‚ it has helped in improving our understanding of mosquitoes and the infection it causes. One way of preventing malaria is by killing the local mosquito population‚ and health workers
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