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    The differential diagnosis that fits 5-year-old Johnny is Impetigo. Impetigo is caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes, which are Gram-positive bacterias that are highly contagious (Hartman-Adams, Banvard, & Juckett, 2014). According to Hartman-Adams, Banvard, & Juckett (2014), it is the most common bacterial skin infection seen in children between the ages of two and five years old. The symptoms associated with impetigo are classified as ruptured oozing sores, and…

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    What makes them mandatory is due to the amount of forign vistitor that bring various pathogens into the U.S. from their homes. For years, Polio was a mandatory immunization. So why would the Polio vaccination be mandatory if it’s not common in the United states. That is all because vaccines are what keep these dieases from even popping up in the country. Vacinations have prevented disease from even starting, and will…

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    Tuyet feels touched and delighted with the respect that she receives, but at last as she is uncomfortable to a new language and unfamiliar customs. With having an injured left leg caused by polio Tuyet can no help that she is unable to walk without pain. As she has maniful operations for her left leg with polio, her memories and thoughts of the past brings back troubling memories of her previous experience with an unsafe community during the vietnam war . With the confidence and bravery, Tuyet…

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    man who created the polio vaccine, was a medical researcher. His invention of the polio vaccine impacted the medical world. His vaccine was not the only one that had a major impact in the medical world. There were a lot of different vaccines, but the vaccine that cured polio was called “Inactivated polio vaccine.” Polio was one of the nation’s most life-threatening and harmful diseases of the Twentieth Century. The vaccine that cured polio saved many lives, mostly kids. Today polio is that…

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    For instance, some objections by Muslim fundamentalists have driven suspicions about the polio vaccine in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. The local Taliban in Southern Afghanistan have called polio vaccination an American ploy to sterilize Muslim populations and an attempt to avert Allah’s will. Resistance to vaccination has even resulted in violent beatings and kidnappings (Warraich, 2009)…

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    Polio Vaccine Case Study

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    In 1954 there were 38476 cases of reported polio in the United States in the same year a mass trial of the polio vaccine began with over 1.3 million children participating in the trial (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 2016). Six years later the vaccine was licensed for use and then five years after that the reported cases had dropped to only 72 (Post-Polio Health International, 2008). The first ever vaccination is often attributed to Edward Jenner in 1796 when he noticed that if…

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    Poliomyelitis Polio is a very contagious illness that is caused by a virus. Poliomyelitis is caused by a human enterovirus of the Picornaviridae family and caused by poliovirus. The polio virus can be transmitted from one person to another through oral contact with secretions or through fecal contact from an infected person. Polio can cause paralysis, difficulty in breathing and even death. Polio sometimes affects children most often. In spite of so many polio eradication campaign, polio virus…

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    H Pylori Research Paper

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    2.5 Treatment of H. pylori Infection The goal of treatment of H. pylori infection is complete eradication of the organism. Eradication is currently defined as absence of H. pylori for a minimum of 4 weeks after treatment, as confirmed by biopsy-based test, UBT or stool antigen test (142). Clinically relevant eradication regimens must have cure rates of at least 80%, according to intention-to-treat analysis, without major side effects and with minimal induction of bacterial resistance (10). 2.5.1…

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    A study was conducted by Bandim Health Project (BHP). The main purpose of this experiment was to compare overall morality between infants given BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine used for tuberculosis and infants given both BCG and OPV0 (Oral Polio Vaccine). To see if given orally if it improves their chances of living or decreases them. They initially started with the hypothesis that administering both of these drugs would not be good for the infants. 7012 children ended up being enrolled…

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    The first top four mentioned etiologic agent that caused diarrhoeal disease is rotavirus. Rotavirus is of the Reoviridae family and is a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus that has a wheel-like appearance when viewed under a microscope (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2009). Figure 3 shows the image of rotavirus under a microscope. Rotavirus is claimed to be very stable as it can remain viable in the environment for months if not sterilized (CDC, 2009). Therefore,…

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