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    Introduction When looking to educate myself on the most commonly seen health conditions in hospitals, I turned to Mrs. Tonya Simpson RN, a registered nurse at St. Joseph hospital in New Jersey. Mrs. Simpson informed me that Tuberculosis is a disease that she sees profusely at St. Joseph hospital. During the interview I gained great insight on why she chose this particular disease, the etiology, the frequency, prevalence, pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, treatments, and the prognosis of Tuberculosis

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    Collection, Observation, and Analysis of Microorganisms in the human environment Introduction The necessity and value of collecting, identifying, and analyzing the various microbes regularly encountered in the daily human environment becomes quite apparent when one gains even

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    their designation, which emanates from the Greek εὖ and κάρυον . Eukaryotic beef along accommodate added membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria and the Golgi apparatus. In additament, plants and algae accommodate chloroplasts. Eukaryotic bacilli may be unicellular, or multicellular. Alone eukaryotes accept abounding kinds of tissue composed of altered corpuscle types. Eukaryotes can carbon both by

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    Wu established the concept of infectious disease in China. He observed the novel fact by microscope that bacillus pestis found exclusively in the victim’s lung. This meant that not local qi but this bacilli caused Manchurian plague and that this bacilli were transmitted directly thorough person-to-person contact. Due to this discovery and the real experience of those who were physically involved with handling the sick, people became convinced of the contagious nature of Manchurian

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    [19]. Rpf-dependent mycobacteria appear to underlie the difficulty we have in improving TB treatment, yet their presence appears to be driven, by both treatment and host factors [20]. It is noteworthy to mention that Rpf-dependent M. tuberculosis bacilli from sputum have been

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    Mycobacteria are acid-fast bacilli with a slow rate of replication. They have a waxy cell wall which allows for their hydrophobicity and resistance to drying, acidity or alkalinity, and several kinds of antibiotics (Sakamoto, 2012, p. 1863). These bacteria primarily target the respiratory

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    Isolation Screening and Characterization of crude Glycerol utilizing microorganism for the production of 1, 3-propanediol Tathagat. E. Waghmare and G. R. Naik* Department of Biotechnology Gulbarga University Gulbarga, Karnataka-585106, India Abstract Rapidly Expanding market for biodiesel has increased the supply and reduced the cost of glycerol, making it an attractive sustainable feed stock for the fuel and chemical Industry. The conversion of glycerol may be carried out by both chemical as well

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    Determining an Unknown Through Deferential Stains and Biochemical Tests Introduction There are many reasons for knowing the identity of microorganisms. The reasons range from knowing the causative agent of a disease in a patient, so as to know how it can be treated, to knowing the correct microorganism to be used for making certain foods or antibiotics. This study was done by applying all of the methods that have been learned so far in the microbiology laboratory class for the identification

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    Bubonic plague is one of the oldest and most devastating plagues in human history (Eckenrode). The plague was devastating due to the plague killing 17,000 people (almost 20% of the city population) in London, 1665 (Scogna). Judging by the transmission, the symptoms, and the treatment, one can tell that the plague was horrific. The bubonic plague is a highly infectious disease that affects the lungs and lymph nodes. The plague is caused by a gram-negative, facultative anaerobe bacterial species called

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    Ministries of Health, states there is still an increase of number of cases of tuberculosis diagnosed each year in New Zealand, approximately 300 cases. Tuberculosis is known to be one of the oldest disease among humans and today is one of the leading causes infection and death in adults. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2016) about one-third of the world’s population is suffering with this disease at present even though there are vaccine widely available. Though there is still a high

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