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Infection Essays and Term Papers
Diphtheria (Corynebacterium Diphtheriae)Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
Corynebacteria are Gram-positive, aerobic, nonmotile, rod-shaped bacteria
related to the Actinomycetes. They do not form spores or branch as do the
actinomycetes, but they have the characteristic of forming irregular shaped,
club-shaped or V-shaped ...
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Lung Cancer 2Lung cancer is a carcinoma that develops in the epithelial cells that form the interior lining to the lungs. The airways get the most exposure to inhaled pollutants, thus most people who get lung cancer are smokers. Lung cancer is not just one disease. There are many types of cancer that form ...
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Celiac Sprue DiseaseWhat if your doctor told you that eating a certain food say pizza would be devastating to your health? You might not like it, but you'd learn to live with it. But what if it was more than just pizza? What if you were told to avoid all bread, breadcrumbs, and pasta? And dozens of breakfast cereals, ...
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AIDS And You: The Lethal RelationWe know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from
it without resorting to such extremes as mandatory testing, enforced quarantine
or total celibacy. But too few people are heeding the AIDS message. Perhaps many
simply don't like or want to believe what they hear, ...
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Lime DiseaseLyme disease is caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, which is a tick-borne spirochete.
The dangers of this disease became more publicised in 1977, where a geographic
grouping of children in Lyme, Conneticut were thought to have juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis1. Soon after, it was discovered that lyme ...
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How Has AIDS Affected Our Society??
Today more Americans are infected with STD's than at any other time in
history. The most serious of these diseases is AIDS. Since the first cases were
identified in the United States in 1981, AIDS has touched the lives of millions
of American families. This deadly disease is unlike any other in ...
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Premarital Sexual intercourse in a serious problem in today's society. Having sexual intercourse before marriage is something that, based on research, needs to be stopped. Sex before marriage can lead to sexually transmitted diseases, such as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Syphilis, and Gonorrhea. ...
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Euthanasia: A Question Of EthicsEuthanasia is one of the most acute and uncomfortable contemporary
problems in medical ethics. Is Euthanasia Ethical? The case for euthanasia
rests on one main fundamental moral principle: mercy.
It is not a new issue; euthanasia has been discussed-and practised-in
both Eastern and Western ...
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The Ebola VirusINTRODUCTION
The most deadly killers on this earth are too small to see with the
naked eye. These microscopic predators are viruses. In my report, I will
answer many basic questions concerning one of the fastest killing viruses, the
Ebola virus. Questions such as "How does it infect its ...
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Kroeger's "AIDS And The Girl Next Door"Most people are aware of AIDS, have knowledge of what causes it, and even realize the ways to avoid infection and spread of the virus. But here’s the paradox: despite all the knowledge, few people seem to be protecting themselves from being infected, as if the HIV infection can’t possibly happen ...
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Sickle Cell AnemiaSickles Cell Anemia in Children (10 pgs)
In 1904 a hospital intern at The Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago Illinois, Dr. Earnest Irons, who was the first physician to describe sickle cells, wrote a report on Walter Clement Noel’s blood.
Also in 1904, Dr. James B. Herrick, a Chicago Physician, ...
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AIDS History And TreatmentIn 1981 a man in Los Angeles was diagnosed as having a rare form of pneumonia, known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. He had a very low number of T-4 helper cells, and died soon after. The doctors were puzzled at the time, but they would later discover that this was one of the first cases of a ...
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AIDS Related StigmaE-mail: rhumph@po-box.mcgill.ca
Introduction Since the appearance of AIDS in the late seventies and early eighties, the disease has had attached to it a significant social stigma. This stigma has manifested itself in the form of discrimination, avoidance and fear of people living with ...
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Coral Reefs 3Coral reefs are one of the oldest types of living systems on earth, and certainly one of the most spectacular. They are massive underwater structures formed by the limestone skeletons of tiny invertebrate animals. Reefs house a greater diversity of body forms, chemistry, and animal phyla ...
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The Education Of A.I.D.S DiscriminationEmployees are being discriminated against for their infectious illness
known as A.I.D.S. They are labeled incapable of performing the tasks they
pursued before they were recognized as being infected. The confidentiality of
an employee is a private matter and very personal. There aremany ...
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The PlagueSince the reign of Emperor Justinian in 542 A.D., man has one unwelcome organism
along for the ride, Yersinia pestis. This is the bacterium more commonly know as
the Black Death, . Plague is divided into three biotypes, each
associated with one of three major pandemics occurring in history. Each ...
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Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley was born in Surray, England on July 26, 1894. He belonged to a dis-tinguished British family, which included T.H. Huxley, an famous scientist and hu-manist; and Julian Huxley, a philosopher of science.
Aldous Huxley went ...
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Common ColdWhat is the ? A is a contagious viral infection of the upper respiratory tract. The symptom of a are stuffy nose, congestion, runny nose, fever, headache, cough, sore throat or fatigue in the body. A could have one or a few of these symptoms. What are the causes of the ? Colds are caused by one ...
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Clinical Chemistry Tests In MedicineOf the diagnostic methods available to veterinarians, the clinical
chemistry test has developed into a valuable aid for localizing pathologic
conditions. This test is actually a collection of specially selected individual
tests. With just a small amount of whole blood or serum, many body ...
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Prevention Of HIV Transmittance To BabiesLast year, it was cause for celebration. The cause of celebration was for the
results that several clinical trials of zidovudine cut the risk for mother to
child transmission of human immune deficiency virus (HIV) by two thirds.
Although, this year, it is the basis for new federal recommendations ...
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