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    What is a Healthy Organism?

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    THE SEARCH FOR BETTER HEALTH 1.What is a healthy organism? Discuss the difficulties in defining the terms ‘health’ and ‘disease’ * Health – state of physical‚ mental and social wellbeing. It is not just absence of disease * disease – any condition which effects the functioning of any part of a living organism * difficulties in defining health and disease; * health 1) the definition of health varies with age eg stiffness in the joints is probably more common in a 90yo

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    Sickle Cell Disease

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    and causes death among Black or Africa-American children from 4 years of age by 42% from 1999 through 2002. (www.cdc.gov). It is interesting to note that the areas with the highest frequency of sickle cell disease also have infection with Plasmodium falciparum that causes malaria in human. In the United States‚ there is an estimated population of 270 millions about 1‚000 babies are born with sickle cell disease each year. It means there are 1-2% of all babies having this disease in the total of 25%

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    Scope of Microbiology

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    SCOPE OF MICROBIOLOGY: What is Microbiology? | �        Microbiology is the study of microorganisms�        Microorganisms‚ roughly‚ are living things that are too small to be seen with the naked eye�        Microorganisms cannot be distinguished phylogenetically from �macroorganisms� (see variety of microorganisms‚ below)�        Microbiology is more a collection of techniques: aseptic technique‚ pure culture technique‚ microscopic observation of whole organisms‚ etc.�        Microbiologists

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    Introduction - sickle cell anemia The first suggestion that genes might provide the information for all proteins came from Linus Pauling’s lab at Caltech. He and his student Harvey Itano studied hemoglobin‚ the protein in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lung to metabolically active tissues‚ like muscle‚ where it is needed. In particular‚ they focused on the hemoglobin of people with sickle-cell disease‚ also known as sickle-cell anemia‚ a genetic disorder common in Africans‚ and

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    Child Marriage: A Silent Health and Human Rights Issue Abstract Marriages in which a child under the age of 18 years is involved occur worldwide‚ but are mainly seen in South Asia‚ Africa‚ and Latin America. A human rights violation‚ child marriage directly impacts girls’ education‚ health‚ psychologic well-being‚ and the health of their offspring. It increases the risk for depression‚ sexually transmitted infection‚ cervical cancer‚ malaria‚ obstetric fistulas‚ and maternal mortality. Their offspring

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    Climate Change

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    Abstract Global warming is defined as a serious phenomenon recently and also it will impact the human health. The impact of the global warming on infectious diseases has been highlighted in this paper. The infectious diseases have been emphasized in two major classifications which are the water and the foodborne infectious diseases as well as the vector borne infectious diseases. Even if the global warming is not easy to solve‚ there are some methods should be taken to mitigate this phenomenon.

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    Identified organisms include Coccidioides immitis and the following parasites: Plasmodium malariae‚ Plasmodium falciparum‚ Schistosoma mansoni‚ Toxoplasma gondii‚ filariasis‚ trichinosis‚ and trypanosomes. Systemic causes Vasculitis (ie‚ Wegener granulomatosis causes glomerulonephritis that combines upper and lower granulomatous nephritides).

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    Microbiology Research Paper

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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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    SUBKINGDOM: PROTOZOA Phylum | SARCOMASTIGOPHORIA | APICOMPLEXIA | CILIPHORIA | Class | Class: LOBOZEA (amoeba)Species: ENTAMOEBA HISTOLITICA: * Only pathogenic parasite of this class * in large intestine * morphology: 1.trophozoite ; 2. Quadrinucleate cyst - 15 micrometers (smaller than 10 is ‘non-pathogenic’)‚ found in colon and feces‚ 4 nuclei * Life cycle: > parasite in caecum > mature cyst is swallowed > cyst hatches in intestine and quadrinucleated amoeba come

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    BRAFORD ASSAY

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    Fractionation of Hymenolepis diminuta with Special Reference to the Localization of Marker Enzymes. Journal of Parasitology‚ 71(4)‚ 415-421. Vander Jagt‚ D.‚ Intress‚ C.‚ Heidrich‚ J.‚ Mrema‚ J.‚ Rieckmann‚ K.‚ & Heidrich‚ H. (1982). Marker Enzymes of Plasmodium falciparum and Human Erythrocytes as Indicators of Parasite Purity. Journal of Parasitology‚ 68(6)‚ 1068-1071.

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