MICI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Leishmania Donovani, Polio Vaccine, Leishmania Major

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Microbiology & Immunology
• Course: MICI 2100
• Professor: Nikhil Thomas, Craig Mc Cormick, Andrew Makrigiannis,

Document Summary

It attacks motor neurons , which in turn causes muscular atrophy . Bones won"t stay in place and atrophy . Polio vaccine was fabricated by killing the virus via heat and injecting it back into individuals to provide immunity. It was essential for the eradication of polio . Huge pustules on face and it usually resulted in death. Causes throat to swells up, which leads to suffocation. Bordetella pertussis (aka 100 day cough). (aka poliovirus muscle atrophy). *** get all of these shots, when you are 2 months old, 4 months old, 6 months old and 18 months old: dtap-ipv-hib. During grade 7 , you receive the following shots: Memory cells have to be periodically restimulated in order to provide protection . Cowpox vs. smallpox enough similarities to provide protection. Live and mutated in some way, but can"t get you disease. Organism is killed with heat / chemicals.