Dracunculiasis the disease commonly known as Guinea Worm is caused by the parasitic worm Dracunculus Medinensis . Guinea Worm disease only occurs in 10% of the world’s poorest populations who has no access to safe drinking water or health care (CDC) . This parasitic worm is the largest of parasites affecting the human’s tissues. The risk for Dracunculiasis varies by ones sex, age, profession, and ethnicity. These differences reflect from how people’s drinking water is obtained in these countries
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I’m writing my paper on Hepatitis A. It is a Hepatitis A virus (HAV) it is an acute infectious disease caused by Hepatitis A virus an RNA virus (picornavirus). Hepatitis A is an infection that causes inflammation of the liver. The liver removes harmful chemicals from the blood, fights infection; helps digest food, stores nutrients and vitamins, stores energy. You cannot live without a liver. Anyone can get hepatitis A if you travel to different countries, live with someone who has active Hepatitis
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Department of Infection Control, Vilnius, Lithuania Accepted for publication: July 2015 S36 I British Journal of Nursing, 2015 (Tissue Viability Supplement), Vol 24, No 15 © 2015 MA Healthcare Ltd Abstract Background: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are an increasing problem worldwide with a high risk of severe illness and mortality in hospitalised patients. Patients with chronic wounds are at particular risk of developing MRSA infections. As octenidinebased
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Measles, also known as rubeola, is a respiratory infection that is caused by a virus. It is very contagious and can be easily contracted. Being in the same room as a person with measles for an hour or longer, having contact with saliva or mucus from a person with measles, or being near them when they sneeze or cough, are all possible ways to catch the measles. This infection can be very irritating, severe, and sometimes even fatal. Some symptoms include, fever, dry cough, runny nose, sore throat
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with some of the debridement. When used to treat gangrene, maggots specially bred in a laboratory so they are sterile, are placed on the wound, where they consume the dead and infected tissue without harming healthy tissue. They also help fight infection and speed up healing by releasing substances that kill bacteria. Because Clostridia are anaerobic, they thrive in low-oxygen environments. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy stops toxin production and inhibits bacteria from replicating and spreading by creating
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The Common Cold Acute infectious rhinitis is a viral infection, with most being self-limiting. Coryza is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract. The rhinovirus is the most causative agent to cause a cold, with most cases occurring in the winter. The rhinovirus is hardy and multiplies in the upper airway. Transmission occurs through airborne, droplet and direct contact (Arcangelo & Peterson, 2013). There are more than 200 known viruses that lead to colds, with the Rhinoviruses
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Pneumonia is a very common lung infection that is a collection of pus and other fluids in the lung air sacs. Pneumonia is caused by many kinds of microorganisms called germs. The most common type of getting pneumonia is bacteria. When an organism is identified it is usually the bacteria Streptococcus pneumonia. Pneumonia is a common illness affecting approximately 450 million people a year and occurring in all parts of the world. It is a major cause of death among all age groups, resulting in 1.4
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Disease and Evolution The human body has been plagued with diseases since the beginning of time—pathogens like viruses and bacteria have made us privy to Mother Nature. As humans evolve, so do the diseases we are susceptible to. Some diseases that were once rare have become common, others have disappeared and newer, more daunting ones have emerged. Many of these changes have taken place in the wake of important transformations in human civilizations and ecology. It is therefore feasible to propose
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injection. Cutaneous anthrax develops when a person handles infected animals or animal products and is the most common form on anthrax. Inhalation anthrax develops when a person breathes in the anthrax spores. It is considered the most deadly and infection usually develops within a week after exposure. Gastrointestinal anthrax occurs when a person eats raw or undercooked meat from an infected animal. It affects the upper GI and has rarely been reported. Injection anthrax has recently been identified
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obligate intracellular pathogen in both humans and animals (Tenter et al. 2000) . T. gondii is the causative agent of both congenital infection and abortion in human and livestock (Dhama et al. 2013). T. gondii infects most genera of warm-blooded animals, including humans, but the primary host is the felid (cat) family. The resulting form is responsible for infection via ingestion of either contaminated food, water or dust (Jones and Dubey 2012, Vanwormer et al. 2013). Additionally, parasites can
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