Normal Flora The term normal flora is different from the flora that is described above. Normal flora refers to the microorganisms that live naturally on the body of another organism. “Natural” because these microorganisms do not cause disease to their host (unless under certain conditions, such...
temperature, water, soil, wind, humidity and radiations. These are the physical and chemical agents that ultimately affects the biotic factors. Biotic factor or components means the living things of an eco-system. It is also responsible for the different outbreaks of...
Damage of the skin, as in surgeries Antibiotic intake resulting in the disruption of the normal flora in the body HIV affects immunity because the virus can infect the T cells of the immune system. Because the immune system consequently becomes less effective, opportunist pathogens have an opportu...
If antibiotic treatment kills off the normal flora, pathogens can take the opportunity to grow and multiply. This is called an opportunistic infection. We learned about two examples of opportunistic infections that can be caused by antibiotic usage. Read Opportunistic Infections | Definition, Types &...
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Sinusitis - While Moraxella catarrhalis is considered part of normal flora in the respiratory system (particularly the upper respiratory system), it can cause sinusitis (acute sinusitis) in children. Essentially, sinusitis refers to the inflammation of the tissue that lines the sinuses. The ...
REML, ML, and EB assume that the distribution of random effects is normal. The other estimators make no distributional assumptions about random effects. Below, we briefly describe the properties of each method. See Sidik and Jonkman (2007), Viechtbauer (2005), and Veroniki et al. (2016) ...
A moratorium refers to a delay or short-term suspension of a law or an activity until the underlying issue is solved. It is usually enacted by a business or a government. It is generally imposed following a crisis that causes financial pressure or disturbs normal routines. ...
Protozoa may be found in the body as a part of normal flora or as a source of diseases. Only a few parasites can cause diseases, however. Parasitic pathogens that pose a great impact on health are exemplified by the sporozoans, Plasmodium spp., that cause malaria, one of the leading ...
The world is filled with different eubacterial species and our bodies contain different species of eubacteria, which are biologically important in our life. Our body is only of the eubacteria habitats forming our normal flora. Normal flora causes no harm to us and they are beneficial to our bo...