Basic Discription Of Microbiology
They�re out there! You can�t see them but they can see you. Right at this very moment they are living on and in your body, and there is nothing you can do about it!
This may sound like the beginning of a horror movie, but it isn�t. It is actually a very basic description of a very broad subject: microbiology.
Microbiology is a complex subject that spans out into a variety of areas. I am a person who is entering the health care field, and it is inparitive that I know the subject of microbiology and how if effects the world in which we live.
Part one of this essay will deal with defining bacteria, viruses, fungi, microbes, and pirons. Part two of the essay will focus on indigenous ...
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can be broken down into four classifications that are bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa.
Prescott, Harley & Klein (1990) describe bacteria as prokaryotic cells (cells that lack a true membrane enclosed nucleus). Bacteria are both small and simple in structure; they usually are between o.5 and 5cmm yet they have many characteristic shapes and sizes. Some bacteria are circular or oval shaped, they are known as cocci bacteria. Other bacteria are rod-shaped, they are known as bacilli bacteria, and some bacteria are spiral and coil-shaped and it is know as spirilla bacteria.
Engelkirk & Burton (1979) state that bacteria can reproduce asexually by simple division of cells and some bacteria reproduce sexually by conjunction. A bacterium is a waste producer of products and secretions. This allows pathogens to invade their hosts to cause disease some of these harmful diseases are Scarlet fever, an acute illness, characterized by a reddish skin rash, which is ...
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cell will then burst; thus infecting the surrounding cells. A disease caused by a harmful virus is A.I.D.S. �Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome which is caused by the human immonodeficiency virus (HIV) � (Jenson & Wright, 1989, p. 476) Another disease caused by harmful viruses is Rubella, �(German measles) A viral infection which is dangerous to the fetus of pregnant women as it may cause various birth defects� (Jenson & Wright, 1989, p. 477). A third viral disease is Influenza, �Commonly called "the flu", influenza is a virus that infects the respiratory tract and may cause fever, headache, and general body aches, runny nose, sore throat, or cough� (Jenson & Wright, 1989, p. 477).
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