Antibiotic

Other testing may be done to check for liver damage, since this is a commonly infected organ. Your caregiver may also use imaging tests to check for complications. This may include X-rays, CT scans, or MRI scans. TREATMENT You will need to take antibiotic medicines for at least 6 weeks. Depending on the severity of your illness, recovery may take a few weeks to several months. If the disease returns, you will need further treatment. PREVENTION • Do not consume unpasteurized milk, cheese,…

experiment was to determine the working concentration of Tetracycline (TNC) on Escherichia coli (EC). We used EC because of its characteristics of fast growth in different environments, complete gene sequence, and availability. Our antibiotic, TNC, is a broad spectrum antibiotic which is effective to many types of bacteria. This is because it obstructs tRNA anticodon from reading the mRNA codons in the 30S ribosomal subunit which halts the lengthening of the protein chain. My team determined…

"About 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock". For years, with the approval from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to treat farm animals with antibiotics, farmers were feeding their animals with drugs to compensate for their compromised immune systems due to feed additives and overcrowded conditions. This results in major health concerns as animals are fed antibiotics as a precautionary measure to…

The ocean is a place of slow, rolling tides, gently gliding above the horizon, a wide expanse of dense, thick, blue water, encompassing diverse organisms ranging from colorful fish to minuscule microbes. It is a calm and peaceful reserve. Murky and opaque, the ocean still conceals much from humanity; science has yet to find the true treasure buried deep within the massive depth of the ocean—its potential for medicine. Its potential lies within its stationary algae strapped to the floor, its…

pediatric trials have methodological problems and are unable to provide conclusions, whereas others have heterogeneous results despite similar study designs. Therefore, the efficacy of probiotics in preventing AAD in children is unclear. Since antibiotics are prescribed frequently in children and AAD is common in this population, it is important to determine. The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of probiotics (of any specified strain or dose) for the prevention of AAD in…

show up resistant to antibiotics. Bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics by creating antibiotic resistance genes through natural mutations. In the early stages of the process scientists do not know if the target plant will incorporate the new gene into its genome (haploid set of chromosomes found in an organism). But “by attaching the targeted gene to an antibiotic resistance gene the new GM plant can be tested by being grown in a lab containing the appropriate antibiotic. If the plant…

overdose animals with antibiotics to offset illness and this has led to humans acquiring antibiotic resistant bacteria. For example, “when the FDA approved fluoroquinolones for use in chickens…the percentage of bacterial resistant to this….class of antibiotics rose from almost zero to 18 percent” (Foer 136). The increased level of antibiotic resistance can lead to humans having immunity to bacterial infections, which can result in serious illness or even death. Besides antibiotics, farm animals…

Using the P22 phage, a lysate was prepared for the transduction of chloramphenicol resistance from a resistant S. typhimurium LT2 strain to a sensitive strain of S. typhimurium. It is believed that P22 phages package 44 kb of chromosomal DNA at random with a 2% frequency and a 2% chance of homologous recombination events occurring (MIC302 lab manual). S. typhimurium has a chromosome length of approximately 4,857 kb, so it was calculated that 0.00036% is the percent chance that the gene for…

Name: Chelsy Oubre Causative Agent: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Disease: Tuberculosis (TB) Classification of the causative agent: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an Acid-fast Gram-positive bacteria History: M. tuberculosis is the leading cause of death with people that are infected with HIV. TB kills a 5000 people on a daily basis. Virulence factors of the causative agent: Mycobacterium tuberculosis enters the body then continues to the lungs. The bacteria while in the alveolar…

produce in particular is the lysine. Lysins are used majorly to digest the cell wall of bacteria. Bacteria have been increasingly gaining resistance to antibiotics and lysins have been used in animal models to control these specific bacteria. Scientists may need these lysins to stop bacteria from becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. Bacteria is infected by bacteriophage when it inserts itself into the cell. The lytic system weakens the cell wall and this creates bacterial…