Penicillin Lab Report

The Discovery of Penicillin The discovery of penicillin was a huge milestone for the medical world and start of the antibiotic age. Penicillin was discovered by physician Alexander Fleming in 1928 and since then has been purified and used to treat many infectious diseases, saving millions of lives (Jacobs). Though the purification took a very long time, penicillin proved to be very helpful in treating common, but lethal infections (U.S. Library of Medicine). Since penicillin was discovered just

spirochaetales. Syphilis is almost always caused by sexual contact with infected lesions, but can rarely be spread through nonsexual personal contact, infection in-utero, blood transfusion, or organ transplantation. • Incidence/Prevalence: The invention of penicillin has drastically decreased the annually reported cases in the United States. From 1943 to 2000, the number of cases declined nearly 95% (Fauci, 2012). However, since 2000, the number of cases reported has increased from <6,000 to 56,471 in 2013

What was mean and green and annihilated its enemy way before the incredible Hulk? The tiny superhero called mold fit in a petri dish. In 1928 Alexander Fleming, a British bacteriologist, found out mold killed bacteria. Penicillin gave way to what we now know as antibiotics. The following decades produced numerous other antibiotics such as Bacitracin that have killed trillions of bacteria and saved millions of lives. Initially, antibiotics all evolved from a living organism. Man-made contrived antibiotics

Control by Antibiotics and Antiseptics Lab Report Georgia State University Introduction The fact that each bacterial species, and even some of their respective strains, responds uniquely to a given antimicrobial makes it necessary to have methods, which provide researchers and clinicians with measurable susceptibilities. This need has become prevalent since the rising of later generations of antimicrobial compounds achieved by chemical modifications of the naturally occurring antibiotics. By

other everyday used things test on animals such as, hair products, skin care, and soap. People have to take a moment and think about how much an animal suffered just to make their cheeks blush. On top of the cruelty, up to 90% of animals used in U.S. labs are not counted in the official statistics of animals tested (Do Something.Org). Exact numbers are not available because mice, rats, birds, and cold-blooded animals—who make up more than 99 percent of animals used in experiments—are not covered by

the bottom of the tube which helped us determine between Gram positive or Gram negative Stapholoccus aureus. With all of this information and following the Gram positive cocci flow chart from lab 6 we came to the conclusion that our unknown pathogen is Stapholoccus aureus, but because of the fact that the lab results indicated that the sensitivity test results showed resistance to all B-lactam agents we realized our unknown HAI pathogen is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. According to

Best Nursing Practice for Standardizing Shift-to-Shift Reports Best Nursing Practice for Standardizing Shift-to-Shift Reports This paper will examine the best nursing practice for standardizing shift-to-shift reports. I became interested in this topic after hearing my mother talk about her day floating to a floor at her hospital. She received report on her patients from two different nurses that morning. Each nurse gave her different information and both were missing information that she

The discovery of antibiotics is arguably the greatest contribution to modern medicine. The widespread use of antibiotics along with vaccines had paved the way for the treatment and cure for many of the otherwise fatal bacteria diseases and this led to a decline in the mortality rates in the mid-20th century. The use of antibiotics in medicine today to treat diseases have not all been met with positive outcomes. As a matter of fact, its relative ease of access and abundance has given rise to a major

any natural behaviors. A majority never experience natural things such as sunlight or fresh air but, only the bars of their cage. The few facilities that do provide some outside caging usually only give them limited amounts of time outside. Standard lab conditions are small, crowded cages, loud noises, and lack of enrichment which are all already known to create stress in animals (23). These kinds of concerns should give people, in certain instances, the right mind to protest against animal testing

There are many things that can be grown in a labs penicillin, vaccines and even human body parts but as of recently it has become clear that lab grown meat is becoming more of an option then ever before. On August 5th 2013 Google sponsored an engineering team to create the very first lab grown hamburger patty. After assembling 20,000 tiny muscle cells in an in-vitro environment and spending $375 000 it was a success the world had there first lab grown meat product. Cruelty free and with little damage