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    Growth Dynamics of E. coli in Varying Concentrations of Nutrient Broths‚ pH‚ and in the Presence of an Antibiotic Dvora Szego‚ Elysia Preston Darcy Kmiotek‚ Brian Libby Department of Biology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy‚ NY 12180 Abstract The purpose in this experiment of growth dynamics of E. coli in varying media was to determine which media produces the maximum number of cells per unit time. First a control was established for E. coli in a 1.0x nutrient broth. This was used to compare

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    Measles Outbreak

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    Measles Outbreak and Controlling a Pandemic James Wilson WGU 000295445 1 Measles‚ or Rubeola as it is also called‚ is caused by a virus. Years ago‚ before the Measles vaccine was prevalent in the United States‚ this virus was one of the worse in terms of disease in our nation. Most children contracted this virus in their adolescent years‚ and many died due to lack of treatment options. More than 400 people died each year of Measles and hundreds more were left with irreversible brain damage. Information

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    Extraction and Analysis of Plasmid DNA from E. coli Cells Introduction A plasmid is an extra-chromosomal element‚ often a circular DNA. Since a plasmid is by definition an extra-chromosomal element‚ it cannot make use of any origin of DNA replication in a chromosome (BP site). Meaning that DNA synthesis within a plasmid depends on having an origin of DNA synthesis of its own. Plasmids are often found in bacterial cells‚ in which they are used as transfer agents for transmitting various antibiotic

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    Arpan Biswa Professor Bahel English 1101 October 24‚ 2014 Ebola Outbreak 2014 In March 2014‚ West Africa suffered for a first time from the most deadly epidemic disease called Ebola since it was discovered in 1976. Ebola is a viral disease caused by virus called Ebola which is named after the Ebola River in Zaire. “Ebola virus‚ having five known subtypes‚ is part of the family of filoviruses and causes the infectious disease Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Tekman)”. According

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    One outbreak was in Sudan and the other in Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1976. E.Sudan heavily affected ‘the towns of Nzara and Maridi’ (Pourrut‚ X et al. 2005 p.1006). Over the period of 4 months‚ 150 people died out of the 284 people infected bringing the mortality rate to 53%. The E.Zaire outbreak was much more severe. It hugely effect individuals in Yambuku as well as villages that lived off

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    Ecoli Hospital Outbreak

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    E coli Out break Analyze Good Health Hospital’s records and itemize recent nosocomial infections that occurred within the past year. In your report‚ categorize the different parameters (i.e.‚ person‚ time‚ place‚ ethnicity‚ and gender) used in the compilation of data into the information summative. The Good Health Hospital records of 2013 have indicated that was an E-Coli O157:H7infection spread among the patients in the Tampa Bay area.” The E coli can be ingested from contaminated foods and cause

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    Justin Hennessy Mr. Evens ENG 1301 – C09 4–2–14 How to survive a zombie outbreak The zombies are here and are at your door. What do you do? Where do you go? How will you survive? If you don’t know the answers to any of these questions then this guide is perfect for you. “What is a zombie? How are they created? What are their strengths and weaknesses? What are their needs‚ their desires? Why are they hostile to humanity? Before discussing any survival techniques‚ you must first learn what you

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    Outbreak At Watersedge

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    Outbreak at Watersedge Outbreak at Watersedge is a game that incorporates public health by creating a mystery to solve. An outbreak of severe diarrhea has taken place and the player must find the origin of the mini epidemic. The discovery game explores professional roles in public health‚ collecting data to support the conclusion and eventually finding out the cause of the outbreak. As a player‚ I mapped individual’s placement before they contracted the illness‚ collected information of where to

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    handle a major epidemic/pandemic outbreak? My husband and I were watching a movie on HBO called Contagion and we started to debate on whether this incident could happen and how bad would the outcome be. I started to look into major epidemic/pandemics in US history and found a few (The Great Influenza of 1919‚ Smallpox against Native Americans‚ Polio in 1916‚ and the most recent Swine Flu outbreak of 2009). The question is what have we learned from these outbreaks and can we handle them if one breaks

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    The outbreak of WWI

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    had escalated until they finally reached their boiling points‚ and eventually as expected they boiled over between countries resulting in a global war. Specifically‚ the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Russia were in fact most critical to the outbreak of war in 1914 because of their desires to prove their Great Power status in the Balkans‚ and their divergent relationships with Serbia. “…It came not as a result of imperialistic bickering over Africa and Asia but because of continuing animosity

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