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    S. Aureus Essay

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    The complete taxonomic hierarchy of the microbe Staphylococcus aureus belongs in the Domain: Bacteria, Kingdom: Bacteria, Phylum: Firmicutes, Class: Bacilli, Order: Bacillales, Family: Staphylococcaceae, Genus: Staphylococcus, and Species: Staphylococcus aureus. The morphology of Staphylococcus aureus is gram-positive cocci which look similar to grape like clusters under the microscope. S. aureus is also non-motile, negative for oxidase, positive for catalase, facultative anaerobic, and doesn’t

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    Imagine this, a customer sitting down at a restaurant and ordering their favorite meal. The meal consists of corn, chicken, and a soft drink. All of these foods and drinks have GMOs, but the customer does not know what the repercussions are to themselves. The consumption of GMOs is detrimental to our bodies because of the unintended effects, the immunity to antibiotics, and the harms caused by pesticides. Eating foods with GMOs should be avoided because have inadvertent ramifications. As the article

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    Numerous attempts have been made to isolate, identify and apply effective antagonistic microorganisms to manage RKN, nevertheless the use of nematicides is proved far more effective than biocontrol agents. According to literature, many bacterial isolates showed a significant nematicidal activity against RKN (Zhou et al. 2016; Vagelas and Gowen 2012; Moussa and Zawam 2010; Mendoza et al. 2008) that inhibited egg masses hatching or caused J2 mortality. Therefore, many studies are still being conducted

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    • History : The concept of treatment with light and photoactive compounds can be traced back over 6000 years to the ancient Egyptians who used light-sensitive substances (psoralens) by crushing leaves of plants related to parsley with sunlight to treat sunburns.(100)Indians also believed that vitiligo could be treated by the combination of extracts of Psoralea corylifolia and light.(100) But the actual breakthrough came by Finsen’s research in 1901 in which he showed that skin tuberculosis could

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    The Real Popeye Disease

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    Name: Pop eye – Exophthalmia 

 Type of disease: see bellow Cause: bacterial or fungal disease, and/or gas 

 Symptoms: the whole eye is popped out from its socket, as if under pressure (not just swollen). Medication:
 Maracyn Plus, Trisulfa, foods mixed with a broad spectrum antibiotic such as tetracycline, chloramphenicol or kanamycin are suggested. Popeye is more a condition than it is a disease. It is actually caused by a disease. It’s also often miss-diagnosed. When the eyes look swollen in

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    E. Coli Essay

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    Escherichia coli, or better known as E. Coli, is one of the most commonly studied single-cell organisms because it is easier to manipulate and it is abundant. Some E. Coli strains can be pathogenic, but most are harmless. They can help benefit digestive health by filling niches in place of more harmful microorganisms. Because it is a diverse group of related microorganisms, it can be difficult to find the boundaries defining the species. Some strains are natural while others are genetically created

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    In the future NASA is looking forward to sending four astronauts to mars. They will be traveling on the Orion spacecraft. They will be launching from the Space Launch System in Florida. The Space Launch System when finished will be NASA’s most powerful rocket they have ever created.The rocket needs to be so powerful so it will be able to travel 225 million kilometers. Science has changed society in many ways one major way is medicine. Before modern medicine it was easier for people to get sick and

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    Alexander Flemming was a scientist that discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 when he accidently mixed the mucous fom the patient in the culture contain bacteria and the bacteria was dead. That is whee he took a closer look at the properties of the mucous from the patient and found the antibacterial enzyme. Lysozyme is one of many proteolytic ezyme foud in the body. It is a first defense system in the body that can destroyed bacterial cell wall. Lysozyme is very effective against gram positive bactreia

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    Systemic Chemotherapy

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    Systemic chemotherapy continues to be the treatment of choice for most patients. Most dogs treated for lymphoma will receive a multidrug chemotherapy CHOP regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone, and doxorubicin. During treatment for canine lymphoma, the drug L-asparaginase (L-asp) is supplemented in order to catalyze the cleavage of asparagine to ammonia and aspartate. The level of asparagine is depleted from circulating blood by use of L-asp, diminishing its availability

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    Rx For Survival

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    The second installment of the video series “Rx for Survival,” concerned itself with implications pertaining to bacteria that have become antibiotic-resistant and was titled “Rise of the Superbugs.” The video presented the cases of individuals who were afflicted with maladies resulting from bacterial infections that were not being impeded by the normative pharmaceutical care that we have used for many decades and take for granted. The video represented the rise of drug-resistant bacteria as a result

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