Pathogen

Introduction A pandemic disease is a pathogen which is an illness, in excess of normal levels which occurs all over the world. There are 2 types of common pathogens a bacteria or a virus. A bacterium is a living organism that can release poisonous toxins which can damage the hosts body it is on average 0.2 um (micrometers which are 1X10-6 m) (1. See bibliography). They can be killed by antibiotics and the 2 types of Wight blood cells (phagocytes and lymphocytes). A virus is not a living organism…

The Martian was both an enjoyable book and movie, although there were some inaccuracies. For instance, the dust storm that starts the whole story and the gravity on mars. But, most of the story was accurate. Like, when Mark Watney uses his background knowledge as a botanist and grows potatoes on Mars. To grow potatoes on mars he uses the martian soil and human feces. Mark did this because he to make more food so he can survive longer on mars. Andy Weir didn’t know at the time when he wrote the…

The field of health is important, when we are diagnosed by any condition first thing we do is look all our options get the best treatment so we can heal as soon as possible. I wonder why we cannot practice a good oral health. A cavity is a condition and must give the same importance as any other part of our body, "health begins in our mouth." I invite you to understand the wonderful world of your teeth, it's as simple as educating ourselves and know the route to maintain a good oral health for…

The objective of this lab was to isolate and identify an unknown Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria through the use of various microbiological techniques. The identification of the genus and species for the unknown culture should be obtained based on the characteristics for Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria. Bacteria are prokaryotic microorganisms that lack a nucleus and therefore all its genetic information is stored in the cytoplasm of the cell. The bacterial cell envelope…

Midterm Exam 1. The leaf cutter ant community is a large amazing system that contains many different species that interact with each other on many different levels. Although many things take place during this extraordinary symbiosis, there are a few keystone mutualists within this leaf-cutter ant community that without them, the results would be almost catastrophic. For one, fungi are extremely important to the ants. Specifically, the fungus Lepiotaceae . The ants cultivate this fungus and…

something you, as a reader, can do to end bovine mastitis. Quite basically, bovine mastitis is an inflammation in one or more sections of the cow’s mammary gland, also called the udder. Causes of mastitis are contagious and environmental pathogens. Contagious pathogens are those that live on the…

50 pathovars. The success of the pathogen is attributed to its specificities (Sarkar & Guttman, 2004). How it has obtained these specificities has been investigated, and HGT is believed to be a driving factor allowing for host ‘jumps’ (Hanekamp, Kobayashi, Hayes & Stayton, 1997). A study by Sakar et al. (2006) used comparative genomics…

immune system that is incapable of recognizing new pathogens in their environment, and creating an immune system response to withstand it. The genes coding the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a part of the immune system in vertebrates (Almberg 2013), and “according to Weber, polar bears most likely have a low MHC due to their confinement to the cold arctic environment that isolates them from most pathogens and limits their exposure to pathogens overall (EPOCH Times…

The Black Death I had just finished burying my husband when I noticed the sharp pain in my armpit followed by an ache in my groin I knew this was how it began. When I got home I went to check on the children. Timothy had dark spots starting to appear from the bleeding under the skin. Mary started coughing violently spraying a mist of blood with every cough, at least she would not be in agony much longer. It began as a painful pus-filled growth in the armpit, groin, or neck area that…

pandemic is going to be. Like it says in the book, “ Too many factors vary randomly, or almost randomly, in that system.” Things happen in our life that we can’t predict. We don’t stay the same our whole lives. We grow and we change. The same is for pathogens. David Quammen says that “it all depends” and he couldn’t be more right. Multiple circumstance in life could happen and I, as well as the rest of the world, could be looking or participating in the Next Big…