Overview
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This is the microbes needed to be written about: Disease: Acute Gastroenteritis
Pathogen: Norovirus
Microbe Type: Virus
Symptoms: Vomiting, Nausea, stomach pain, fever, headache, and body aches. Norovirus leads to inflammation of the stomach or intestines, commonly known as acute gastroenteritis. These symptoms take up to 12- 48 hours after exposure. Most people take 1-3 days to recover. Dehydration can be a serious consequence of this virus.
Transmission: Highly contagious, can spread through direct contact, contaminated food, or water, or touching contaminated surfaces. Hospitals and long-term care facilities are common breeding grounds for this virus.
Prevention: Remain at home when ill, cook seafood thoroughly, rinse fruits and vegetables, wash hands thoroughly and frequently, and refrain from preparing meals for others while ill and for two days following the cessation of symptoms.
Outbreak Control: Using PPE, cleaning the surroundings, reporting instances to health authorities, and isolating affected individuals are some strategies used in epidemic management.
Disease: Relapsing Fever
Pathogen: Borrelia recurrentis
Microbe Type: Bacteria
Transmission: Spread by body lice or soft ticks. When sleeping in cabins infected with rodents, humans are usually bitten by soft ticks, which emerge at night and feed on their victims while they are asleep.
Symptoms: High temperature, headache, aches in the muscles and joints, and a fever pattern that lasts for approximately three days, followed by seven days without fever, followed by three more days of fever. This cycle may recur several times if antibiotics are not taken.
Habitat: Spontaneous diseases and outbreaks, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, frequently in areas ravaged by conflict and in camps for refugees
Treatment: The CDC has not produced treatment guidelines for tuberculosis-related fever (TBRF); nonetheless, professionals typically advise oral treatment with doxycycline or azithromycin and ceftriaxone for patients with severe cases or pregnant individuals.
Disease: Toxoplasmosis
Pathogen: Toxoplasma gondii
Microbe Type: Protozoan
Symptoms: Symptoms like the flu. Pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems may experience more serious issues.
Transmission: Consumption of tainted, undercooked meats; contact with tainted cat excrement; or mother-to-child transmission during pregnancy.
Prevention: Toxoplasmosis can be avoided by cleaning fruits, vegetables, and utensils, freezing meat before cooking, using gloves when gardening, and maintaining proper hygiene.
Treatment: Most healthy people don't need medical attention. Medication is provided for persons who are immunocompromised, pregnant, or nursing a baby.
Works Cited
- (2015, September 10). Relapsing fever home | CDC. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/relapsing-fever/index.htmlLinks to an external site.
- (2019a). CDC - Toxoplasmosis - Epidemiology & Risk Factors. CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/epi.htmlLinks to an external site.
- (2019b). CDC - Toxoplasmosis - Treatment. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/treatment.htmlLinks to an external site.
- (2019c). Norovirus. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/index.htmlLinks to an external site.
Prevention, C.-C. for D. C. and. (2019, February 28). CDC - Toxoplasmosis - General Information. Www.cdc.gov. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/gen_in...Links to an external site. HERE is what you need to answer:
Pathogen Project Unit IV Research Discussion Board
Carefully read the REQUIRED INFORMATION which lists what details about the disease and its pathogen need to be collected.
Use the websites above or other credible sources on our Pathogen Project page to gather the information and post it to the board. In order to not lose your work during Canvas updates and to make sure you have all the info needed, is it recommended that you copy the REQUIRED INFORMATION onto a word document, type in your research results, and copy/paste into the "Reply" box on each Discussion Board
Remember to list your sources; a link to webpages is sufficient. If you can’t find information about a particular topic, state that.
REQUIRED INFORMATION for each of your 3 diseases unless otherwise specified:
Type of nutrition, like photoautotroph, chemoheterotroph (For Bacteria and Eukaryotes only)
Optimal environment (For Bacteria only) Use concepts you learned in this unit. Include:
- Temperature group (e.g. facultative psychrophile)
- Oxygen requirements (e.g. obligate anaerobe)
- pH and/or salt requirements
- If microbe only grows in humans, discuss our environment.
How do you kill the microbe outside your body? Use information learned in Chapter 13.
- 2 physical methods (e.g. boiling water) used to kill or inhibit your pathogen outside the body.
- 2 chemical methods (e.g. chlorine dioxide) used to kill or inhibit your pathogen outside the body.
- If the microbe is never outside a host, state that. Then fill out the above information for a generic microbe of the same type. For example, if you have a Gram (-) bacteria, choose another Gram (-) bacteria to fill out the information. If you have a non-enveloped virus, choose a different non-enveloped virus that survives outside the body.
How do you kill the microbe inside the body? Use information learned in Chapter 14.
- List at least one Antimicrobial agent (e.g. Penicillin) used to treat or cure your disease or specify if none is available
- Mechanism of action of the antimicrobial agent; in other words, how exactly does the drug kill the microbe? (e.g. inhibits protein synthesis by affecting ribosomes)
- Route of drug administration (e.g. intravenous)
- Side effects of the antimicrobial agent (not harmful effects of the disease itself)
- Discuss if the disease be cured or just temporarily treated.
Please remember to cite sources Worth 7 pts
Sources
Use your OpenStaxLinks to an external site. textbook as a main reference. You may also use credible internet sources like:
http://www.cdc.gov/Links to an external site. http://www.who.int/en/Links to an external site. http://www.webmd.com/Links to an external site. http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/MicrobeWikiLinks to an external site. http://www.medscape.com/Links to an external site. Todar's Online Textbook of BacteriologyLinks to an external site.