SYPHILIS “THE GREAT IMITATOR” Syphilis is known as a bacterial infection that is caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum. The primary way of transmitting this infection is through sexual contact‚ but may also be passed from mother to fetus during pregnancy or at birth which results in congentital syphilis. The exact origin of syphilis is unknown‚ but has been studied over the years and two interesting hypotheses have arisen. The first is that it was carried from the Americas
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Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram negative bacilli ‚ non-motile and capsulated . It appears as a mucoid in MacConkey agar it’s ferment lactose. According to biochemical tests the klebsiella gave negative result for oxidase‚ indole‚ methyl red‚ hydrogen sulfide‚ phenylalanine‚ gelatin hydrolysis‚ DNase and lipase. On other hand klebsiella gave positive result for citrate‚ urease hydrolysis‚ lysine decarboxalyze‚ acid form lactose‚ acid form glucose‚ acid form sucrose‚ acid form maltose‚ acid form mannitol
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She felt free‚ independent with complete control of her life because she can go anywhere she just needed her massage table and her hands. A couple of months later‚ adversity hit hard.“I lay in a coma that the doctors diagnosed me with bacterial meningitis‚ a vaccine-preventable blood infection. Over the course of two and a half months I lost my spleen‚ my kidneys‚ the hearing in my left ear and both of my legs below the knee” (Purdy). The level of adversity with Amy was hard core. She had no choice
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diseases and saving the lives of millions. The discovery of penicillin changed the lives of everyone on the globe‚ but it also changed the course of medicine. With the development of penicillin‚ diseases that were once seen as fatal‚ such as bacterial meningitis and pneumococcal pneumonia‚ finally had an easy‚ treatable‚ solution. In the 1930s pneumococcal pneumonia would be treated with antisera and sulfonamides. These were a
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fkqbdo^qba=j^k^dbjbkq =lc=`efiaella=fiikbpp= Division of Child Health and Development (CHD) World Health Organization UNICEF SICK CHILD AGE 2 MONTHS UP TO 5 YEARS TREAT THE CHILD‚ continued Give Extra Fluid for Diarrhoea and Continue Feeding Plan A: Treat for Diarrhoea at Home ........................ 15 Plan B: Treat for Some Dehydration with ORS ........ 15 Plan C: Treat for Severe Dehydration Quickly ......... 16 Give Follow-up Care Pneumonia .........................................
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particle size‚ where for airborne‚ the particle will have to be small to travel whereas for droplet transmission‚ the area of infection is within its own vicinity. Airborne infections also cause severe diseases akin to droplet transmissions such as meningitis‚ severe-acute respiratory infection (SARS)‚ chickenpox or influenza. One common bacterium that can travel via airborne is the deadly Mycobacterium Tuberculosis [8]. This bacterium has a particle size around 1-5 microns [9]‚ and can remain airborne
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A child with a disability is a child with a mental or physical health condition and that must be provided with services and equal opportunities in order for them to be a successful human being and live a fulfilling life. An intellectual disability has limitations in two different areas: Intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviors. Intellectual function is also know as your IQ. This shows a person’s ability to learn‚ reason‚ make decisions‚ and solve problems. Adaptive behaviors are necessary
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Causes and Effects of Poverty in Fika‚ Nigeria. Poverty is defined as the lack of minimum food and shelter necessary for maintaining life. In order to survive‚ human beings need basic resources such as clean water‚ sound education‚ good health‚ clothing and shelter. Within the society there is a wide range of poor people having less income than the rich which make the poor inferior to the rich. Poverty in Fika is caused by scarcity of human resources‚ opportunity barriers and unemployment; which
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been hurt. Damage to the cochlea typically causes permanent hearing loss. This is called sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). Many things can cause SNHL‚ or cochlear damage‚ including loud or extended noise exposure‚ certain powerful antibiotics‚ meningitis‚ Meniere’s disease‚ acoustic tumors‚ and even the natural decline in age can cause hearing loss. We’ll discuss noise-induced hearing loss here as an example‚ although the cochlear damage that occurs is similar to other types of sensorineural hearing
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Forty reasons why we need animals in research These points have been drawn up to provide an accessible resource for anybody discussing animals in research. We are happy to take your suggestions to add to our list. General points Animal research has played a vital part in nearly every medical breakthrough over the last decade. Nearly every Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine since 1901 has relied on animal data for their research. We share 95% of our genes with a mouse
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