Leprosy: The Peripheral Nervous System

Infection is when foreign bodies such as bacteria, fungi and parasites invade your body these germs can cause disease and can even lead to amputation or even death in the host body. An infection may cause no symptoms or it may cause symptoms where you become really symptomatic and be hospitalized.

See Table 1 and Flow Chart 1 for results of Bacteria # 1 and Table 2 and Flow Chart 2 for results of Bacteria # 2.

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Everyone has that one feature they want to change in him or her. Some let that flaw get in the way of what they think of themselves and make them feel insecure of what other people think of them. Throughout the course of The Samurai’s Garden, Gail Tsukiyama uses Sachi’s experiences with having to deal with leprosy and how she wasn’t beautiful anymore to illustrate the idea that inner beauty is more important than outer beauty. Sachi went through the horrors of experiencing leprosy. One feature that Sachi had was outer beauty and most girls from Tarumi didn’t have as much as she did.

Introduction: Leprosy is a bacterial invention that cause various problems. In some cases leprosy can be very dangerous without treatment. Leprosy can be treated but it is a long process. Leprosy was once one of the most feared diseases, but with medical advancement leprosy is not as feared as it once was.

Great job! I enjoyed listening to your presentation. You did a great job explaining this topic and the different ethical principles involved. Your illustrations and quotes from victims of the segregation were really powerful, and gave a sense of what they endured and how they felt. What I learned from your presentation is what leprosy is and how disfiguring it can be. I also learned how inhumanly people with leprosy were treated and isolated from the rest of the community. I did not know that people with leprosy in this country were treated as poorly as we saw in core two. I was wondering if the community which remained in Hawaii had any reparation from the USA for being treated so inhumanly.

Lepromatous leprosy (LL) is the widespread form of the disease. This form of the disease may be present for many years before diagnosis. Flesh-colored or erythematous nodules may be present. When left untreated, the disease will progress with diffuse widespread infiltration of the skin and nerves. In this form of leprosy, systemic involvement is mainly seen because of bacillary infiltration of the oropharynx, upper respiratory tract, kidneys, liver, spleen, bones and testes.

Although it is easily preventable, over 36,000 cases of syphilis are reported annually in the United States alone (“STD Facts-Syphilis” 2010). Treponema pallidum is the bacterium that causes syphilis. Being one of the most common STDs, syphilis is a bacterial sexually transmitted disease that acts quite differently from the other common STDs because it acts in stages. Fortunately, there are antibiotics to cure syphilis; however, there are not cures for the other health related problems that it causes.

The epidermis (skin) gets rashes that are red and flaky. The rashes are not painful though, because the rash is killing the nerve endings which make the affected skin numb to pain. There are three types of leprosy: tuberculoid, lepromatous, and borderline leprosy. Tuberculoid leprosy is when the rash appears on the skin and the parts of the body located under the skin become numb, because the rash is killing

The earliest record of leprosy existing is back in 1550 B.C. There, it was discovered that the Egyptians had described the indicators of this pathogenic bacterial disease. From then on, Indians, Greeks, and Romans had dealt with the disfigurement, muscle weakness, and neuralgia. As the disease multiplied inside of its hosts, so did humanity’s struggle to accept and cure the disabled whom were affected. In 1873, a Norwegian doctor named Dr. Gerhard Hansen uncovered Mycobacterium leprae, the leprosy pathogen. Afterwards, doctors start using an oil extracted from a Chaulmoogra nut plant as a treatment. They injected the oil into the person affected. Although it seemed to work, the injections near affected areas were painful for the treated persons,

Leprosy, this disease has been feared for centuries. How can such a small organism cause so much chaos? Ignorance, and misconception has lead people to the wrong conclusions. Even today, people with leprosy are still segregated and even put into “leper” camps. Even some doctors afraid to treat patients with leprosy. This is all do to unease and past tales of this horrific disease.

Leprosy an infection primarily of the skin and nervous system caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. This particular bacterium has been very hard to study over the years because of the slow rate at which it multiplies, making the only practical way to research Mycobacterium leprae being inoculation of the infection into mice (specifically the foot pads) and armadillos (one of the only animals known to be infected by Mycobacterium leprae naturally other than a few select species of non-human primate). Leprosy has been running its course throughout the majority of recorded history with one of the first documented cases being written about in Egypt in approximately the year 1500 B.C. No real scientific progress was made in identifying the

Leptospirosis is a relatively rare bacterial infection in cats that can be fatal. The disease is zoonotic, meaning that it can spread from the cat to other animals and humans. Children, elderly adults and those with weak immune systems are especially at risk for acquiring the parasitic bacteria from their cat.

Although both Archaeal and bacterial cells possess flagella for motility, the composition of each organism’s flagellum is very different. In bacterial cell, the flagellum is composed of a basal body, external protein filaments both are joined together by a third component called the hook.(Bacteria Flagella David Gene Morgan , Shahid Khan). In Archaeal, the protein filament is polymerised, glycosylated and very much thinner. The Archaeal flagellum is believed to be similar to the bacteria IV pilus in structure.(www.uniprot.org/keywords/974).

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an acid-fast, rod-shaped bacillus. The disease mainly affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, mucosa of the upper respiratory tract, and the eyes. (WHO, 2016)