1. Appears as grape-like clusters when viewed through a microscope‚ and has large‚ round‚ golden-yellow colonies‚ often with hemolysis‚ when grown on blood agar plates. 2. Microorganisms that are used to assess the microbial quality of swimming pool and similar environments include heterotrophic plate count – HPC (a general measure of non-specific microbial levels)‚ faecal indicators (such as thermotolerant coliforms‚ E. coli)‚ Pseudomonas aeruginosa‚ Staphylococcus aureus and Legionella spp. HPC
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IF YOUR BACK HURTS‚ DON’T IGNORE THE PAIN. PHYSIOTHERAPISTS WILL CORRECTLY ASSESS THE PROBLEM AND PROVIDE SAFE & EFFECTIVE TREATMENT. Roughly 70 to 85 percent of people have experienced back pain at some point in their lives. Many cases of lower back pain are the result of a muscle strain. The good news is that such back pain generally heals quickly in a few weeks or months. Depending on the causes of lower back pain treatments can vary from person to person‚ so it is generally advisable to get
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gifts every made to humankind. This discovery introduced the era of antibiotics to the world (Calvo‚ 2000). Staphylococcus aureus causes various pus-forming infections such as boils‚ styes‚ pneumonia‚ urinary tract infections‚ and more seriously osteomyelitis and endocarditis (Todar‚ PhD‚ 2008). The recurring theme of Sir Fleming’s career was to find a chemical substance that would kill infections bacteria without killing surrounding tissue (“Sir Alexander Fleming‚” 2004). Sir Alexander Fleming was
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One out five people will suffer some types of fracture such as Alex‚ who is accidentally pushed by one of his friends now Alex lies in pain and bleeding because a bone has popped out of his leg this called compound fracture. What is a fracture? The word fracture means broken bone this occurred when the bone snaps into two or bone snaps into several pieces due to excessive force. There is different way a fracture can occur‚ for instance small children are risk of developing fractures due to weak bone
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Mango (Mangifera indica) leaves extract and Coconut Oil as an Antibacterial Ointment A Science Investigatory Project of Kristifany C. Mamba Bansud National High School-Regional Science High School for Region IV – MIMAROPA Pag-asa‚ Bansud‚ Oriental Mindoro Abstract The purpose of this study is to produce an antibacterial ointment out of Mango leaves extract and coconut oil. Young mango leaves were gathered and was chopped into small pieces. 50 mL of coconut oil was put in a frying pan. Then‚
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Lobotomy is neurosurgical operation on the brain’s prefrontal lobe. Lobotomy was performed for about two decades and was used to treat many of the mental illnesses‚ including schizophrenia‚ manic depression‚ and bipolar disorder. Mainly it was performed as the treatment for Schizophrenia. Lobotomy was the most popular and the post known treatment for any psychosurgery. It developed in 1935 the Portuguese Egas Moniz of Lisbon. However‚ it is an American psychiatrist Walter J. Freeman became
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family moved to another town in Oklahoma. He was a very good athlete; he played basketball‚ football before he started playing baseball. In fact his football playing almost ends his career as a player. "Mantle’s leg soon became infected with osteomyelitis a crippling disease that would have been incurable just a few years earlier. A midnight ride to Tulsa enabled Mantle to be treated with newly available penicillin‚ saving his leg from amputation." Indeed this disease was the reason why he couldn’t
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Musculoskeletal Physiology Be familiar with bones and muscles of body 3 types of muscle skeletal‚ smooth‚ cardiac attaches muscle to bone‚ decreasing angle of joints during contraction proximal part of esophagus doesn’t connect to bone‚ proximal (upper) conscious control is primary skeletal‚ distal is involuntary and smooth muscle T- tubules: inside is ECS‚ deep invaginations of plasma membrane in muscle cell PM is sarcolemma allows high concentration of Ca‚ like other EC spaces (IC is
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these new deadly diseases and with other problems of their own like malnutrition‚ anemia‚ and the high rate of fetal and neonatal deaths and infant mortality‚ parasitic intestinal infections‚ dental problems‚ respiratory infections‚ spina bifida‚ osteomyelitis‚ nonpulmonary tuberculosis‚ syphilis along with bruises arthritis and snakebites and you can see why the Native American populations had a dramatic decrease just by disease. Some tribes experienced up to a 90% loss in population‚ of course this
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The American Impact from Penicillin Everyone in this world is here because of one factor‚ and that is penicillin. Penicillin is a drug that is used in most‚ if not all antibiotics. Sir Alexander Fleming is credited with the discovery because of an accidental mistake during a scientific study on Penicillium Notatum mold. While returning from a holiday break on September 3‚ 1928‚ Fleming never knew he would be discovering the drug that has saved a countless number of lives throughout time. Penicillin
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