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for the face, palms of hands and soles of feet. This rash can lead to debilitating bleeding sores in extreme cases. Typhus is said to cause a person to have a sensitivity to light, delirium, and in some cases cause comas. Antibiotics such as doxycycline, tetracycline, and chloramphenicol have been used to cure typhus. The infected person can also benefit from intravenous fluids due to the dehydrated brought on by the fever and the intestinal problems. If the disease goes untreated,…

Karamjit Singh Antibiotics report-back task 1. The 5 ways by which an antibiotic may disrupt or destroy a bacterial cell are : • The bacterial cell wall • The bacterial plasma membrane • Synthesis of bacterial proteins • Bacterial nucleic acids • Bacterial metabolism 2)Bacteria cell wall synthesis: While the cells of people and creatures don 't have cell walls, this structure is basic for the life and survival of bacterial species. A drug that…

prisoners. Most of the people in jail would die before they served their full sentences. Symptoms include headache, fever, rash, chills, hacking, vomiting, confusion, cough, abdominal pain and more. Treatment for it include antibiotics such as Doxycycline, Tetracycline, and Chloramphenicol. Of course this was the 1600s so getting antibiotics was not really an option. “For prevention avoid areas where they might encounter rat fleas or lice.” (The New York Times Company pg…

experienced high fever, asthenia, dizziness and myalgia. He was diagnosed with Plasmodium falciparum malaria with 8% parasitemia (with no severity criteria according to the WHO guidelines 1). He was successfully treated with endovenous quinine-doxycycline.…

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy assists in wound healing by stimulating the blood vessels to dissolve more oxygen throughout the body from the increased administration of oxygen pressure. During this process, bacteria decreases, stem cells and growth factors increases, which promotes rapid wound healing. Side Effect Definition/Describe A. Pneumothorax: Pneumothorax is defined as a collapsed lung due to the presence of gas or air…

DOI: 8/12/2009. Patient is a 48-year-old female account executive who alleges neck injury aggravated by work. As per OMNI notes, the patient is status post cervical spine surgery at C5-7 on 8/8/2011. Based on the progress report dated 09/14/16, the patient presents for neck pain radiating from neck down and right shoulder pain. Patient rates her pain with medications as 4/10 and without medications as 7/10. Quality of sleep is fair. Patient is active for limited hours and takes part in…

The plague is probably best known in the West as the disease that caused the Black Death in Europe in the fourteenth century. Nearly two-thirds of the population of Europe was killed, leaving a marked impact on Western culture (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2014). However, plague has not been eradicated and continues to be a disease that humans contend with in the twenty-first century. Natural disasters, human conflict, and abnormally warm and dry weather conditions can all cause increases…

The genus chlamydia is made of three species called C. psittaci, C. pneumoniae, and C. trachomatis. Today we will be focusing on C. trachomatis. It stains gram negative which means it has a thin cell wall and it is bacillus or rod shaped. C. trachomatis is also an obligate intracellular organism which means it cannot exist without a host cell. This leads us into our next segment on how C. trachomatis affects us as human beings. To many of us we know C. trachomatis as chlamydia, which is…

source=search_result&search=rosacea&selectedTitle=2~38 10. Rosacea. Canadian Dermatology Association. Available from: http://www.dermatology.ca/skin-hair-nails/skin/rosacea/ 11. Webster GF. An open-label, community-based, 12-week assessment of the effectiveness and safety of monotherapy with doxycycline 40 mg (30-mg immediate-release and 10-mg delayed-release beads). Cutis 2010;…

Anthrax Outbreak Out of all of the diseases, anthrax seems to have the most potential for a massive outbreak. In its respiratory form, anthrax could easily be spread globally. It’s high mortality rate and typically short incubation period would allow casualties to increase quickly. The most effective way to create an outbreak of anthrax would be through direct acts of bioterrorism. As anthrax is not communicated person-to-person the spores would have to be continually introduced into the…