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How retroviruses cause cancer.A number of tumors from inbred animals such as mice and chickens show associated retroviruses
Discuss at least four types of organisms that can cause parasitic diseases in the human being.
Why are viruses not considered alive? In the explanation, include the criteria that must be met for something to be considered alive.
Lastly, why antibacterials are not used to destroy viruses is examined, and by extension, the differences between bacteria and viruses leading to this fact
Describe the three different types of locomotion.Compare and contrast humoral and cellular immunity.
Why are antibiotics ineffective at destroying viruses?Why are antibacterials not used to destroy viruses?
Pathogenicity of Microbes with Capsules For Micro Students.How does an organism with a capsule such as K. pneumoniae, provide the organism with pathogenic ab
Explain the strategies devised by OSHA and the CDC to prevent transmission of blood borne pathogens of infectious diseases.
Significant importance when identifying diseases which would place those persons in a community at greater risk
Describe the process of viral replication; discuss both normal and retroviruses, and comment on the implications of this process for genetic engineering.
Identify the characteristics of SARS which account for its spread and the severity.
The Early Days of AIDS in the United States.Please discuss the social and biological perspective of AIDS.
HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C.Discuss three ways the Hepatitis C epidemic is similar to the of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Disinfection and Sterilization Agents.For each method listed, indicate the mode of action, whether it is sporocidal, common uses,
Physical and chemical control of growth and viability.Present and discuss the differences and similarities in the microbial metabolic
Summarize the key differences and similarities between the E.Coli and HIV.
Why is the synthesis of mRNA a central issue for all viruses?Polio and HIV are both +ssRNA viruses that have very different strategies for replicating
How HIV Infects Helper T Cells.This solution will review the basics of viruses and discuss the process that occurs when a helper T cell
Edward Jenner Vaccination.Microbiology was a study of living organisms that scientists had some trouble proving to the general public
Antibiotic Resistance and Methicillin (MRSA).Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become a big concern in hospitals throughout
Discuss the four phases of the bacterial growth curve.Explain two methods used to measure microbial growth.
Discuss the metabolic requirements for growth of each microbe and select one antibiotic (bacteria), antiviral (virus) or anti-fungal (fungi)
Discuss the function of HIV protease, integrase, and reverse transcriptase.Explain how this pathogen causes disease in the host.
Discuss the role of the immune system in protecting the body from the pathogenic and non-pathogenic microbes selected in Module 1 and 2.
Sides effects of vaccinations.The immune system is an amazing instrument of the human body.