Virology

According to Abraham Lincoln, “it’s not the years in your life count, it is the life in your years”. This quote is important to me because I believe a life well lived is that which has impacted the society in a positive way. My parents deserted me at the age of four due to reasons unknown to me but known to them. I lived most of childhood with my grandparents who greatly took care of me. However, while I was in high school, my grandpa was diagnosed with diabetes Mellitus, which had affected his…

17. Covey S.N., Al-Kaff N.S., Langara A., Turner D.S. (1997) Nature, 385, 781-782. 18. Durrant W.E., Dong X. (2004) Annu. Rev. Phytopathol., 42, 185-209. 19. Garavaglia B.S., Thomas L., Zimaro T., Gottig N., et al. (2010) BMC Plant Biol., 10, 51. 20. Gent D.H., du Toit L.J., Fichtner S.F., Mohan S.K., et al. (2006) Plant Dis., 90, 1468-1480. 21. Ghotbi T., Shahraeen N., Winter S. (2005) Plant Dis., 89, 425- 429. 22. Griffith J.K., Baker M.E., Rouch D.A., Page M.G.P., et al. (1992) Curr. Opin.…

Quarantine I chose a 2008 movie “Quarantine” for this extra credit assignment. In this movie, a television reporter and her cameraman are shadowing two fire fighters during their night shift and while they are touring the facility, an emergency call leads them to an apartment from where the 911 call was made by the apartment manager. Upon arriving of the 2 firemen, 2 police officers and the television crew the apartment manager explains that a woman has been screaming upstairs in one of the…

of the school of communication. Kaye, Kenneth, and Sarah Warren. "Discourse about Adoption in Adoptive Families." Journal of Family Psychology 1.4 (1988): 406-33. EBSCOHost. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. This source is a journal article. Kaye has a Ph.D. in virology from Harvard University and is currently an associate professor of medicine at Harvard…

Through further exposure with competitions and classes over the past two years, I have developed a growing attachment to virology, specifically the functioning of malaria parasites and their treatments, and hope to collaborate and conduct research with others in the field. Unfortunately, my age, as well as my limited experience with laboratory techniques and research aspects…

Genital Herpes (Hawkins, J., et al, 2014) Primary Infections can present multiples lesions in both males and females. It is most commonly seen in the male’s penis, buttocks, thighs and females’ labia, fourchette, cervix, buttocks, thigh, nipples. -Myalgia -Arthralgia -Malaise -Fever, lymphadenopathy -Dysuria on both males and females -Dyspareunia -Headaches (can be a sign of Herpes Meningitis) If this is a recurrent genital lesions- it is less painful, no systemic symptoms , unilateral and will…

The rabies virus has already survived for hundreds of years and is often fatal. The are 71 different species in this pathogen's family with 11 genera. The genus I identified is the lyssavirus from the family Rhabdovirdae. The species of the family Rhabdovirdae, I found on this farm in Montana, was rabies. Animals and humans can be a host to this virus. It is a zoonotic disease prevalent in wildlife, and the main animals involved vary between continents. In North America the main animals involved…

According to Kathleen Berger, immunizations alone have a huge impact on the survival rates of our society versus any other public health measures besides our clean drinking water (Berger 107). Vaccination and Immunizations are considered interchangeable terms and can mean the exact same thing. The definition of both is defined as “A process that stimulates the body’s immune system to defend against attack by a particular contagious disease” (Berger 107). In 1796, an English doctor by the name of…

Pharmacist is defined as healthcare professional whose job is to prepare and sell the drugs and medicines that a doctor prescribes for patients. Some aspects of pharmacy has been, constant- unchanged over a long time period of time. The first college of pharmacy in the United States was founded in 1821 as the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Many colleges followed after. No information was found about the establishment of the first pharmacy school in Mexico. Currently, there is eleven…

paramyxoviruses and is classified in the genus pneumoviruses. There are at least ten polypeptides of RSV that exist. RSV is an ssRNA, enveloped virus ranging in size from 120-300nm, its envelope contains two proteins and two glycoproteins, according to virology-online. It has two subtypes A and B with, it is believed that subtype A exhibits more severe episodes. The incubation period of the disease is typically three to eight days. The virus attacks syncytium, defined by biology-online.org…