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List the principles of chemotherapeutic resistance. Write short note on the one you consider most important. Answer: Resistance describes reduction in effectiveness of drug to perform its normal function. It is the ability of microbes; bacterial, fungi, virus to resist the toxic effects of drugs and grow in the presence of the same concentration of drug that will normally kill or limit its growth. The following are the principles of chemotherapeutic resistance: • Pharmaceutic factors which…

SUMMARY This report is based on a case study regarding the structural failure of a spray drier. Tests and measurements were performed on the failed drier as well as on the two newer remaining driers. These tests and measurements were taken in an effort to determine the cause of the failure and to recommend precautions to take in order to extend the lifespan of the newer models. Topics covered in this report are what type of testing was used on the material, the results of the tests, and the…

Mandë Holford hopes to one day use venom from deadly snails to kill pain in human beings. This is the gist of headlines preceding articles based on Holford’s current research published by NPR and PBS. However, Holford's publications of her research tend to have less explosive and technical names such as “Characterization of Shared Pigments in Colorful Avian and Mollusk Shells” and “A Novel Bioactive Peptide Toxin from Terebrid Marine Snails”. For this case study Holford’s research paper titled…

treating them. S marcescens has an intrinsically high resistance to a broad spectrum of antibiotics, in the late 1970s S. marcescens was usually susceptible to kanamycin and always susceptible to gentamicin in vitro (Yu et al., 1979), but reports later emerged about strains that were resistant to a broad range of antibiotics, including gentamicin (Meyer et al., 1976; Yu et al., 1979) today, the literature is filled with cases of S. marcescens’ resistance to almost every class of antibiotic in…

Introduction Clinical laboratories have relied historically on phenotypic methods (i.e. culture and biochemical tests) to identify microorganisms. This can be time consuming task especially with slow growing organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Molecular methods are now well established in the diagnosis of infectious disease. . (Harwood 2012). For the purpose of this essay I will give a brief overview of both traditional and molecular methods that re used today. I will focus on the pros…

Impetigo and Erysipelas are a bacterial- skin infection diseases. They are both caused by hemolytic streptococcus bacteria, also Impetigo is caused by another kind of bacteria which is called staphylococcus aureus. According to Hecht (2017), there are three types of Impetigo - nonbullous, bullous and ecthyma- while Erysipelas has one type only. The former is found in the tropical areas and subtropical (Marks,n.d.). Similarly, Erysipelas is common in hot and humid weather (the international…

possess many virulence factors which are usually decided by their genetic makeup. Not many virulence determinants of bacteria are expressed phenotypically. Capsule is one such bacterial organelle which displays many functions that include adherence, resistance to immune clearance, protection against environmental factors and many others including the typing of bacteria based on their specific capsular antigen and rapid diagnosis of capsulated bacterial infections using monoclonal/polyclonal…

Cold sores : You have a cold sore that bums you out! What should and shouldn't you do now? First of all, you need to know that a cold sore is caused by the herpes virus and that there's fluid in the blisters. A cold sore can be annoying and painful, but is hardly ever harmful. The herpes virus will remain forever in your body though, and can get reactivated at a later time. That's why you can get a cold sore over and over again. There isn't any treatment to get the virus out of your body. So,…

“See if you can guess what I am now … I’m a zit. Get it?” - Bluto Background: The purpose of the antiseptic lab was to show the effectiveness of multiple antiseptics: hydrogen Peroxide, Purell hand sanitizer, Water and Iodine. The procedure of the lab for the first day involved our group acquiring a cotton swab and using the swab to gather the Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) bacteria from various spots around our face, we then grabbed a Petri dish filled only with a thin layer of agar. We…

During my clinical rotation at Palmetto Richland on the Acute Care for the Elderly unit there were several patients on contact precautions due primarily to Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or high counts of gram-positive Escherichia coli bacterium (E. coli) in the urine and blood. A good example of best practice that I witnessed was the proper display and implementation of contact precautions around patients with multidrug-resistant organisms and bacteria (MDROs). If a patient…