Bacterial Meningitis Meningitis is an infection that affects meninges, membrane coverings of the brain and spinal cord. Due to Bacterial meningitis’ close proximity to the brain and spinal cord it is potentially life threatening. If not treated promptly it may lead to life-long complications such as deafness, epilepsy, hydrocephalus and cognitive deficits. Bacterial meningitis is contagious and prolonged close contact can spread the bacteria that cause meningitis. The bacteria can spread from…
Is It Safe To Go To A Pedicure Spa? For the Science Fair, my question will be, “Is it safe to go to pedicure spas?”. To answer my question, I will test the bacteria levels at pedicure stations in local salons. I will get permission from the salons where I plan to obtain the samples and identify them only as anonymous sources. I will go to local business establishments and collect samples from the pedicure stations using materials such as petri dishes, sterilized swabs and other research…
Bacterial infections, which are common today, used to kill those who were infected. Bonnie Bassler, a professor at Princeton University, states that “our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously” (Bassler, n.d.) after the mass production of Antibiotics began. Antibiotics are a category of medication made from bacteria; these medications are designed to eliminate bacterial infections. The prolonged use of antibiotics is hazardous for the human body and could have negative…
Rheumatic Fever is an acute systemic inflammatory condition that appears to result from an abnormal immune reaction occurring a few weeks after an untreated infection, usually caused by certain strains of group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus. The preceding infection commonly appears as an upper respiratory infection, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, or strep throat. Antibodies to the streptococcus organisms form and then react with connective tissue called collagen in the skin, joints, brain, and heart…
(Prokaryotic cells). Bacteria can be very helpful for your body but also it can be very harmful to your body. Two of the most common harmful bacterias are Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Salmonella.Tuberculosis is a lung infection that irritates the lungs and makes the victim cough in a very aggressive manner but it can be helped with antibiotics (Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Molecular Determinants of Virulence). Salmonella is a very common bacterial…
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Respiratory infections are a major global health burden. The emergence and spread of drug-resistant respiratory tract pathogens, particularly Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has aggravated the current situation. High dose delivery of drugs to the lung using a dry powder inhaler (DPI) is an emerging approach to combat drug-resistant local infections. To achieve high dose delivery, highly aerosolizable powders are required. We hypothesized that co-spray-drying kanamycin, a hydrophilic hygroscopic…
I have been a radiation therapist for 29 years and I have met and bonded with a lot of patients over the years. Each day I’m amazed at what I learned from them. One courageous woman once told me she was prepared to die. Her children were raised and doing well on their own. She felt they had good morels and work ethics that gave them meaningful jobs. She said she finished her most meaningful job and was ready for her fate because she knew her family would be fine. When she told me this she…
corners- 1) Agent, that causes the disease; 2) Host, or organism that harbors the diseases; 3) Environment, or external factors that causes or allows for the disease transmission. In the case of TB disease, the agent is the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and sometimes Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis), M. africanum. M. canetii and M. caprae. The host factors are low immunity, poor nutrition, and co-infection or concurrent disease (e.g. HIV). The environmental factors are crowded conditions, poor…
January 25th of each year is a day of bringing awareness to a very ancient but yet still occurring bacterial infectious disease called leprosy. Statistics show that there are about 250,000 new cases of leprosy diagnosed each year while about 3,000,000 people are suffering from the long term irreversible effects caused by late diagnosis of the disease (Life Goes on with Leprosy, 2015). Because leprosy can be treated rather effectively in it’s early stages, it should be completely eradicated…