Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9781259709227
Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor, Heidi Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 17Q
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The name of one or more medical procedures or treatments that use viruses to benefit human health.
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Viruses are known as small infectious particlesand they require a host cell for their multiplication and growth. Viruses are mainly responsible for causing severe infectious diseases. But certain viruses also have potential advantages and they are used to target gene in medical procedures. For example, adenoviruses are used in gene therapy to target the gene of interest into a human cell to cure genetic disorder.
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Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
Ch. 5.1 - Explain what it means when viruses are described...Ch. 5.1 - Identify better terms for viruses than alive or...Ch. 5.1 - Which statements are accurate regarding properties...Ch. 5.2 - Prob. 3AYPCh. 5.2 - Describe the function and structure(s) of viral...Ch. 5.2 - Distinguish between enveloped and naked viruses.Ch. 5.2 - Prob. 6AYPCh. 5.2 - Diagram the possible nucleic acid configurations...Ch. 5.2 - Medical Moment Q. Antibiotics targeting bacteria...Ch. 5.3 - Diagram the five-step life cycle of animal...
Ch. 5.3 - Define the term cytopathic effect and provide one...Ch. 5.3 - Discuss both persistent and transforming...Ch. 5.3 - Provide thorough descriptions of both lysogenic...Ch. 5.3 - Prob. 2NPCh. 5.3 - Prob. 3NPCh. 5.4 - List the three principal purposes of cultivating...Ch. 5.4 - Describe three ways in which viruses are...Ch. 5.4 - Prob. 4NPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 14AYPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 2MMCh. 5.5 - Prob. 5NPCh. 5.6 - Analyze the relative importance of viruses in...Ch. 5.6 - Discuss the primary reason that antiviral drugs...Ch. 5 - ___% of human DNA is thought to consist of viral...Ch. 5 - Prob. 2QCh. 5 - Construct a scenario in which viral latency and...Ch. 5 - Prob. 4QCh. 5 - If viruses that normally form envelopes were...Ch. 5 - Viruses use the host cell cytoplasmic space as...Ch. 5 - The general steps in a viral multiplication cycle...Ch. 5 - Compare and contrast the processes of latency and...Ch. 5 - Pathogenic bacteria lysogenized by phages can...Ch. 5 - When phage nucleic acid is incorporated into the...Ch. 5 - Prob. 11QCh. 5 - Prob. 12QCh. 5 - Prob. 13QCh. 5 - Prob. 14QCh. 5 - Prob. 15QCh. 5 - Prob. 16QCh. 5 - Prob. 17QCh. 5 - Construct an argument for whether humans or...Ch. 5 - Since 2000, the number of orders of viruses...Ch. 5 - Prob. 20QCh. 5 - Prob. 21QCh. 5 - Prob. 1VC
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