Bacteriology

Ruth Ella Moore is a remarkable woman that has contributed greatly to society, yet has received little to no recognition. Moore was born in Columbus, Ohio on May 19, 1903. She achieved distinction when she became the first African American woman in the United States to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in the natural sciences (Brown, 2007). Her academic achievement was significant because her minority status was combined with an era of social prejudices against women in educational and professional…

gonorrhoeae based on whole genome data and its relationship with antibiotic resistance. PeerJ 3:e806: DOI 10.717/peerj.806 3. Bergey, D. H., Buchanan, R. E., Gibbons, N. E., & American Society for Microbiology. (1974). Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology. Baltimore: Williams &…

Resistance of Ordinary Bacteria to Penicillin Russell, Bradley BSC111L 4 Nov. 2016 Introduction Antibiotic resistance is a problem that is occurring more and more rapidly across the world. Antibiotic resistance is when antibiotics have lost the ability to control or kill bacteria. The bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and continue to multiply. This is causing medical and science communities to grow more and more uneasy as therapeutic levels of antibiotics are becoming less and…

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Your eyes open as you hear the loud slam of the doors behind you. You try to look around, but find yourself unable to move. You see mysterious silhouettes standing over you with needles in their hands as you hear the squeak of wheels against the floor. A man comes near you and starts saying words you cannot seem to make out. Everything slowly fades to black, and you are out. You wake up hours later in a hospital bed, and the same mysterious man comes out from behind the curtains. After a long…

There are many inventions and discoveries that today may have been looked over as they have always been at arms reach to us. However, these inventions were never always readily available and their impact during their creation, changed society in many ways. Antibiotics are one invention that are still crucial and essential to our lives today. Without antibiotics, simple illnesses would leave many dead, as it did prior to their development of antibiotics. It was in 1928, when Alexander Fleming…

The history of vaccines and immunization began in 1796 when Edward Jenner, a doctor living in Berkeley, England, performed the world’s first vaccination (Stern & Markel, 2005). Jenner “took pus from a cow pox lesion on a milkmaid’s hand” and “inoculated an eight-year-old boy” (Stern & Markel, 2005, p.612). Six weeks later, Jenner again inoculated two sites on the boys arm and he was unaffected. This was the beginning of vaccines and expanded greatly in the late 19th and early twentieth…

Clostridium botulinum (Botulism) Principles of Microbiology - Section 006 Maritzabel Barajas Audra Melton Introduction Botulism is an often times fatal disease which attacks the nervous system causing paralysis. (Sterba) The bacteria Clostridium Botulinum makes the neurotoxin that causes the partly deadly disease. Although the occurrence is rare, this disease is of great concern because when it happens it can have a high fatality rate. (Gale) The bacteria name comes from the Latin word…

More Americans have died during the Civil War than any other war. 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty. Two-thirds of these didn’t die from wounds. They died from diseases such as typhoid and dysentery. Civil War medicine was not yet advanced enough to connect a lack of hygiene with an influx of disease. Lack of hygiene in hospitals and camps also contributed to the spread of disease. Placing a latrine downstream away from the clean water supply was sometimes also overlooked. Disease spread…

Poverty, hunger and disease were three of the most fatal beings for mankind, but the deadliest being diseases. Before the 1940s, doctors had no effective management of infections such as gonorrhoea and pneumonia. An illustration of this, found that patients with blood poisoning, caused by cuts or scratches, were left hoping that their immune system could fight it because they would have to choose between amputating and death. This was the case for many because there was no known medicine that…