BIOL 2P98 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clostridium, Pressure Ulcer, Enterococcus Faecium
16 Jan 2017
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Hlsc 2p97 - global issues in infectious diseases. Lecture 7: the global threat of antimicrobial resistance. The difference between being infected and being infectious. Which countries are tb more prevalent (6). Cholera is not zoonosis, because the transmitter is shellfish and they are not vertebrates, they. Zoonosis: how hiv started, but is no longer transmitted by animals are anthropods: have an external hard shell. A few multiple choice, but more short answers, and a few long answers. Antimicrobials: bacteria: antibiotics, fungi: antifungal, antimycotics, viruses: antivirals, parasites: antiparasitic drugs: There was a time where we did not have synthetic anti bacteria. A lot of our medicines come from nature. One of the first antivirals was for cold sores, this is how we figured out the life cycle of the cell. Notorious examples: staphylococcus aureus, enterococcus species, clostridium difficile, malaria (plasmodium falciparum, tb, hiv/ aids. Came from the veterans returning from war. Attached the residential schools as well: candida species infections.
