Mycobacterium tuberculosis

major disease in Victorian Britain was Tuberculosis because there was no cure and not easily detected. In Victorian britain there was one major disease, is Tuberculosis, also called TB.One-sixth of all deaths are caused by Tuberculosis during this time period.Another major disease In Victorian britain is chickenpox. some of the symptoms to chickenpox is red spots on the body. These illnesses caused many of the deaths experienced by Victorians. Tuberculosis and chicken pox are a very…

Time magazine's talk about the AIDS Epidemic in their Aug. 3, 1992, cover. The audience is mostly educated adults in their early 20's to late 50's. Those are the people that would be most worried about AIDS and how it was affecting America at that time. The cover main title is "losing the battle", in 1992 AIDS became the number one cause of death for U.S. men ages 25 to 44, there was no cure for AIDS. But there were treatments for people living with aids to allow them to live a little longer.…

Cystic Fibrosis About 75% of all children either carry the Cystic Fibrosis gene or are personally affected by the Cystic Fibrosis gene. Since Cystic Fibrosis is becoming more and more common in children, it is important to truly understand how this genetic disease affects the body and the lives of the people who suffer from it on a daily basis. The defective Cystic Fibrosis (CF) gene is inherited and affects a protein that regulates how much salt moves in and out of cells. The buildup of salt…

It is without question that Britain was facing increasing problems 1819, and ‘the urban adult population in general faced grave health risks resulting from poverty, crowded housing and poor ventilation as the so-called “filth diseases”.’ This abundance of disease and suffering would have contributed significantly to Shelley’s interest in the vitality debate, especially having already lost 3 children he shared with Mary Shelley to premature birth, dysentery and malaria. Mary Shelley, when…

The pathophysiological mechanisms involved with ventilator-associated pneumonia or VAP is correlated with bacteria flowing through the endotracheal tube, allowing a direct route to enter a person’s lungs. Studies suggest the principle risk-factor for the development VAP relies on the utilization of the endotracheal tube or ETT (Mietto MD et.al, 2013). Usually after 12 hours of intubation, bacteria that is specifically act as contaminated oropharyngeal secretions may often accumulate through the…

The virus was first documented discovered by Dr. Louis Montagnier, who resided in France in 1983. Although, the cases identified in the United States were not the first known cases after physician’s started taking a closer look at undiagnosed cases. Robert R. a teenager in St. Louis in 1969 entered the hospital with shortness of breath and infections, and passed shortly after (Bell). Additionally, in Central Africa in the middle of the 1970’s, there were reports of people deteriorating, and…

Marcella Parisi English III HL Pereira 20 May 2016 How AIDS Penetrated Not Only Humans, But Also Their Culture The United States during the 1980s was the hub of the AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) outbreak. This disease would go on to claim the lives of thousands of citizens including numerous entertainers and artists, causing others in those perspective communities to respond with epidemic, politicized art exhibitions, written pieces, music, and plays. (U.S. Department of Health &…

Pneumonia is viral, bacterial, and fungal. According to World Health Organization, pneumonia comes in the different forms such as Streptococcus pneumonia, which is a type of bacteria. Another cause of bacterial pneumonia is the Haemophilus an influenza type b (Hib). We have the respiratory syncytial virus type which is the most common viral cause of pneumonia. Then we have pneumonia in infants infected with HIV called Pneumocystis Jiro ve ci. There is various way pneumonia can be spread. It can…

My Semester Project will consist of two musical pieces, one representing the journey that individuals with tuberculosis from Peru go through, and the other the journey that individuals with tuberculosis from the United States go through. The former will end in death, and the latter in a recovery. The different stages will be the initial stage pre-diagnosis, followed by being diagnosed with TB, then holding out hope that the TB will be cured, leading ultimately to the demise/recovery. These two…

Pulmonary TB in the Air Christina E. Santiago San Joaquin Valley College ST:11 Introduction to Surgical Technology Abstract Tuberculosis is a bacterial disease which can affect the lungs or body depending on which part the bacteria has made its home. Pulmonary tuberculosis has two phases on which the bacteria exposes itself. Latent TB, the individual has no signs or symptoms of being ill at all. In this phase, the bacteria will appear at some point in the individual’s lifetime if no testing…