Streptococcus pneumoniae

“In the 1980s pharmaceutical manufacturers, thinking infectious diseases were essentially conquered, cut back severely on searching for additional antibiotics” (Levy). Unknowingly, people all over the world are promoting the reproduction and spread of multiple-drug resistant bacteria and viruses. Every continent in the world is connected by easily accessible travel which makes infection effortless. There are numerous amounts of methods can slow down this process and keep people healthy. If the…

Jeffrey is my five year old brother and he is frequently getting sick. He was admitted to Queens Medical Center when he developed a really high fever. The doctor working at Queens Medical center who examined Jeffrey diagnosed him with pneumonia. He received antibiotics for his condition but Jeffrey is now susceptible to pneumonia. Pneumonia Pneumonia is an infection in one or both lungs, the air sacs called the alveoli fill up with fluid and becomes inflamed (Mayoclinic, 2015). Pneumonia…

Case study 1 Mr I is suffering from seasonal influenza as he shows symptoms including sneezing, headache, muscle ache, malaise, dry, chesty cough, fever, fatigue and weakness because he can hardly sit up. These are all the symptoms of seasonal influenza (NICE, 2015). Although symptoms of colds and influenza are very similar, but his symptoms developed within two days which is relatively fast, proving that he suffers from influenza instead of cold. As symptoms of influenza develop a lot faster…

Introduction It is inevitable that parents will eventually have to seek the expertise of a physician or pediatrician for their child with regard to advice, diagnosis, assessment, and/or resources. Oftentimes, parents enter physician’s office with thoughts about what is and what is not causing their symptoms to transpire offering their own interpretations (Gill & Roberts, 2012). Such encounters will allow for the opportunity for physicians to apply their medical expertise with a goal of…

A Chemical That Works Against Life Antibiotics (sometimes called antibacterials) are a strong group of medicines that are used to treat infections caused by bacteria and certain parasites. The term antibiotics comes from the Greek terms “anti” (which means “against”) and “bios” (which means “life”) While our scientific knowledge of antibiotics has only recently been developed, the practical application of antibiotics has existed for centuries. Many ancient cultures, including the ancient…

Introduction The United States goes through many crises, but one in particular is the antibiotic resistance crisis.When a person becomes ill, they will go to the doctor and get an antibiotic, however, this illness may not need an antibiotic, as in a viral infection, or the patient may not take the medication correctly. As a result, antibiotic resistance occurs and can make it impossible to cure that illness in the future. Brad Spellberg, Robert Guidos, David Gilbert, John Bradley, Helen W.…

altering the makeup of the DNA, and reinserting the gene back into the organism using one of the practical techniques such as gene gun. Genetic transformation was first discovered by Frederick Griffith. Griffith used two different strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae discovered earlier by Griffith; the smooth (S) strain and the rough (R) strain. The R strain, when grown in a petri dish, would form colonies that have well-defined edges but a rough appearance; the S strain formed colonies…

Sickle Cell Disease is a collection of inherited disorders in which the red blood cells lack hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is an essential protein to the body that assists in the color of the blood cells, as well as allowing oxygen to be carried all over the body (What is Sickle Cell Disease 2016). Sickle Cell Disease first arose in West Africa, affecting hundreds of people. The disease was thought to only affect the people of that area, but it quickly became a widespread disease. Ten to thirty percent…

For my final essay, I have chosen to describe, what I feel, are the five most important experiments on DNA as our hereditary material and its structure. I will also give a brief bio on the scientists in each experiment. For the five experiments, I have chosen the following: Meischer and the discovery of DNA, Griffith and the discovery of the phenomena transformation property, Hammerling and the discovery of cell nucleus role in reproduction, and Hershey-Chase for their conformation that DNA…

Green Fluorescent protein and Green Fluorescent protein are suggested to be involved in bacterial transformation tool, which helps the scientists visualize the normal protein in cell. To test the hypothesis, the experiment had been collected the around 15 colonies from E.coli source plates. Those amounts of E.coli, then, were used to test under transformation of E.coli with Green and Blue Fluorescent Proteins procedure. As the result, the E.coli that had been injected pFluoroGreen and…