What is the pathogenesis of the Ebola virus? What is a reportable communicable disease? What does leprosy affect? What are epidemic prone diseases? What disease has caused a major epidemic in Africa? What bacteria causes epidemic typhus?
State three ways bacteria can act as pathogens causing disease in humans. List and describe three virulence factors associated with bacteria that cause gastroenteritis. What is the name of the bacteria that causes diphtheria? What bacteria are most likely to be tra...
I have a few questions: What sort of bacteria causes Ebola (other sites give different answers). How did the disease get its name? If the disease is caught, how can the doctors and nurses treat it? How could the people who are in an area where they are likely to catch it keep thems...
We generally refer tobacteriajust like that:bacteria. But note thatbacteriais technically the plural form of the singularbacterium.(You can blame that on Latin.) You might need to usebacteriumwhen discussing the specific kind of bacteria that causes a disease, such asYersinia pestis, which causes...
The tuberculosis pandemiccontinues to kill over 1.5 million people annually. Despite the availability of effective treatment, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis is increasingly resistant to drugs used to treat it.15 The HIV pandemichas killed over 39 million people since 1982.16However, with the ava...
Causes Symptoms Treatment Prevention Additional resources Bibliography While tonsil stones may seem like a bad medical hoax, they can be a real problem. Tonsil stones, also known as tonsilloliths or tonsilliths, are benign accumulations of bacteria and debris in the crypts of some people's tonsi...
Zoonotic diseases, which pass from animals to humans, kill millions of people every year. Where do they come from and how can we avoid them?
coli (STEC), which causes gastrointestinal infections... It was a relatively large outbreak (275 cased as of 25 June 2024) compared to about 1500 cases of STEC reported annually, triggering the alert2. It turned out that the bacteria were on the lettuce used in sandwiches. The problem was...
However, more concrete results eluded him. Based on the previous work of German physician Robert Koch, who discovered the bacteria that causestuberculosis, Mayer thought he should be able to isolate and grow the pathogen behind tobacco mosaic disease in lab dishes. However, he was unable to isol...
Tufts Now: Ebola has periodically flared up and died out quickly since it was first identified in 1976 in Sudan and Congo. What causes each new outbreak? Jonathan Epstein: The current scientific evidence suggests that Ebola virus is carried by fruit bats, which can be infected with it without...