"Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria” was aired on October 22‚ 2013. Frontline investigates the increasing amount of potentially deadly antibiotic resistance bacteria. Answer the questions below. Episode can be viewed at: HYPERLINK "http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/ What is community associated MRSA? MRSA infections in healthy people who have not been hospitalized or had a medical procedure
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11‚ 12 81-90 essay: 10 points Describe the Kirby Bauer Test? Make sure you describe all the key elements. 1. Using sterile technique‚ inoculate 3 nutrient agar plates individually with: a. E. coli b. S. aureus c. M. smegmatis 2. Place antibiotic disks evenly spaced on the inoculated agar plates and incubate at 37C for 24-48 hours. 3. Using sterile technique‚ inoculate 3 nutrient agar plates individually with: a. E. coli b. S. aureus c. M. smegmatis 4. Using sterile technique place
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Protoplast Isolation Technical & Teaching Notes Apparatus • lettuce (round‚ green lettuce not iceberg) • scalpel or sharp knife • forceps • tile • glass Petri dish • 10 cm3 syringe • 1 cm3 syringe • 13% sorbitol solution • Viscozyme enzyme • Cellulase enzyme • Dropper • small filter funnel • 60 (m gauze square (approximately 12 cm X 12 cm) • tape • centrifuge tube • slide and coverslip A centrifuge‚ high
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Dramatic increase in antibiotic resistance is an after effect of genetic material transfer from species to species and within species. Egression of Strains like VREF (vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis)‚ MRSA (Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) add complexity to current drug resistance problems. Use of broad spectrum antibiotics as medicational strategies transforms them from its normal state as gut commensal to leading
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Nowadays resistance to antibiotics is one of the major challenges facing treatment of bacterial infections. The majority of human pathogenic bacteria have been resistant to clinically used antibiotics. Moreover‚ the currently used antibiotics have low selectivity against bacteria and thereby affect both pathogenic bacteria and our benign endogenous microflora. Therefore‚ there is a need to find out a novel approach that inhibits the bacterial pathogenesis and infection [1-3]. Chlamydia trachomatis
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Vaccines‚ antibiotics‚ and many other advances have lessened the impact of infectious diseases. Unfortunately‚ this has not been true everywhere. It has not been true in many developing countries. Infectious diseases remain the major causes of morbidity and mortality in much of the world because new illnesses caused by microorganisms continue to emerge. Moreover‚ known pathogens are becoming resistant to treatment. Some pathogenic microbes that had been "controlled" through the use of antibiotics are beginning
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cough. H.K denied fever or chills but admitted to feeling “run-down”. His past medical history included varicella zoster at age 5 years‚ seasonal allergic rhinitis (pollen)‚ viral respiratory tract symptoms 2 weeks ago (now resolved)‚ and no recent antibiotic use over the past 3 months. He is married with two children who are not in daycare (ages 8 and 9). H.K is a supermarket manager‚ non-smoker‚ and denied substance abuse. The patient reported having private prescription drug coverage but was only
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In previous studies effective protection against tetracyclin was obtained (18) and also confirms that the Agrobacterium tumefaciens have the sensitivity to many antibiotics including tetracyclin and kanamycin (19). Antibiotic resistance means the abililty of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotics(20). The isolated were showed sensitivity towards ampicillin‚ chloramphenicol‚ penicillin‚ streptomycin‚ sulphatriad confirms the differnce in response between the isolates
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Excessive Use of Antibiotics and Their Effects on the Global Healthcare Environment Melissa A McKinney Drexel University Abstract This literature review explores numerous published articles that discuss the importance of recognizing that excessive antibiotic use has become a universal threat to our healthcare environments. This issue has turned into a global health phenomenon associated with increased occurrence of various antibiotic resistant bacteria‚ causing a serious danger
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Conclusions of DH5α DNA transformation with red colonies resistance to ampicillin and the lacZ gene Introduction: In this experiment‚ a plasmid with a gene that has resistance to the antibiotic ampicillin and has lacZ is used to transfer the resistance into E. coli bacteria in red colonies. This same technique is used to give diabetics their insulin‚ and to give dwarfs growth hormones. The point of this lab is to give the groups an idea how DNA can
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