Opportunistic infection

spread through bodily fluids and it damages the immune system. The damaged immune system opens the body up to opportunistic infections that otherwise wouldn't pose a problem. HIV becomes AIDS if the immune system breaks down enough. Currently there is no cure for AIDS however certain drugs can help keep HIV from developing into AIDS. Additional medications can combat the opportunistic infections

Puerperal Fever is an infection that new mother’s experience when they have children. “While a hospital is a place of healing, it is also a location where many different types of bacteria grow. After giving birth, women are more vulnerable to infections of the genital tract. Bacteria are opportunistic and thrive in warm, moist environments, like the genital and urinary tracts” (Rachel Nall). It was a terminal illness that affected Mary Shelley personally being that her mother passed away from it

Gastrointestinal infections seen with HIV infection may occur from such parasitic organisms as Entamoeba histolytica, Entamoeba coli, Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium sp, Microsporidium sp, and Cytoisospora (formerly Isospora) belli. Only Cryptosporidium and Cytoisospora are part of definitional criteria for AIDS, though one or more of these agents may be identified in the GI tract by stool examination at some point in the course of AIDS.[419] Cryptosporidium is far more frequently identified than

During a viral infection the virus will firstly attach to a specific receptor on the hosts cell surface by the capsid or envelope triggering a cascade of events allowing it to enter the cell. For example the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attaches to the CD4 receptor

In the early 1970’s, scientists in Japan and the United States began to study animal retroviruses to gain further knowledge about viruses that caused leukemia. Although animal retroviruses existed in non-human primates, it was believed that human retroviruses did not exist. However, after the T-cell lymphtropic virus was isolated from a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, the human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus (HTLV) became the first human retrovirus discovered and marked the beginning of scientific

Since the birth of our world at least 4 billion years ago, the Earth was destined for life. The opportunistic location and essential chemicals created archaic life forms that still exist today. Bacteria were one of the first living organisms to inhabit the planet, found deep within the oceans and on virtually all terrains. With its diverse adaptability it has since then continued to flourish and evolve into the abundance of species we are familiar with today. Unlike viruses, bacteria are able

replicate and multiply by mitosis. Fungal infections occur due to fungi including organisms such as dermatophytes and yeast, which are made up of structures called hyphae. On the other hand, viruses are parasites and therefore require a host cell to replicate and spread. Distinctions in the micro-organisms structure can be pivotal to not only the function of the pathogen within the body, but also the means by which it may spread. An example of a bacterial infection is Tuberculosis, which is a disease

Phialemonium obovatum is a saprophytic filamentous fungi that is capable of infecting humans, especially those with compromised and weakened immune systems [4] [3] [8]. Species of the Phialemonium genus are found throughout the environment [3][4]. They can be found and isolated from sewage, soil, air and water [3] [4]. Discovery Walter Gams and Michael McGinnis were first to describe the Phialemonium genus. They described it as being an intermediary genus from between the Acremonium genus and Phialophora

influenced the need for public health change and the educational methodologies used to reduce the opportunistic pathogens the ability to infect or preventing viruses from replicating. Introduction The major health concerns of the 19th and 20th centuries stemmed from bacteria leading to the following infections cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, H. influenza type b (Hib) (meningitis),

are HIV and Ebola, respectively (Wainberg et al., 2014). Similarities & Differences Between Two Viral Killers: HIV & Ebola HIV and Ebola share similarities with respect to suspected origin and routes of transmission but the outcomes for these two infections are vastly different (Tambo et al., 2016). Both viruses are zoonotic in nature, with primates as the known original hosts for HIV and bats and primates hypothesized to be the original hosts for Ebola (CDC, 2015). Routes