Essays on Microbiology

Microorganisms are everywhere. They live on your skin, inside of you, and on every surface you come in contact with throughout the day. For the most part the microorganisms that we constantly interact with cause no harm to us, some even help. However there are always a few that cause trouble to us and when…

A virus is an ultramicroscopic infective being that, holding no independent metabolic activity, can retroflex merely within a cell of another host being. A virus consists of a nucleus of nucleic acid, either RNA or DNA, surrounded by a coating of antigenic protein and sometimes a lipid bed surrounds it every bit good. The virus…

Your next patient is a 17 year old high school student. He is an avid video game player. After a complete history and physical exam, you find him to be healthy with a IBM of 24. 5. A. Even though he is in the upper limits of a IBM range, the patient is healthy but…

Epidemiology of Rubella Pregnant women are one vulnerable group susceptible to contracting a viral disease. One viral disease that pregnant women can contract is rubella. Rubella is often a mild disease that affects children, adolescents, young adults, and is susceptible to pregnant women. The disease can be devastating when transmitted to the fetus. This paper…

Malaria parasites have been with us since the beginning of clip, and dodos of mosquitoes up to thirty million old ages old show that malarias vector has existed for merely as long. The parasites doing malaria are extremely specific, with adult male as the lone host and mosquitoes as the lone vector. Every twelvemonth 300,000,000…

son who made many wildly diverse discoveries in many different areas of science. He was a world-renowned French chemist and biologist whose work paved the way for branches of science and medicine such as stereochemistry, microbiology, virology, immunology, and molecular biology. He also proved the germ theory of disease, invented the process of pasteurization, fermentation,…

“When Smallpox spread, epidemics were everywhere and killed millions of people. “After getting the disease once, survivors were immune for the rest of their lives. This led to the practice of variolation—deliberately infecting a person with smallpox. Dried smallpox scabs were ground up and blown into the nose of an individual. The person would get…

Somatic cells in humans contain __________ set(s) of chromosomes and are therefore termed __________. two; diploid Which of the following statements about homologous chromosomes is correct? They have genes for the same trait at the same loci Ignoring crossover, how many kinds of gametes can be produced by an organism with a diploid number of…

A few days after ceaseless rain lashed the regions in Thane and stranded some localities, the risk of infectious diseases stares large at the residents. With a massive dumping ground right in front of the railways station at Vithalwadi and a sewer flowing in the rear, it seems like an open invitation to the various…

The 4 different types of microbes than can cause disease are; Bacteria Bacteria, also known as Bacterium in the singular term, are a prokaryote. Prokaryotes are simple , single celled organisms. Bacteria get their nutrients from the environments in which they live, in some cases, that is the human body.  They are larger than viruses,…