MBIO 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Southeast Asia, Diphtheria, Iraqi Biological Weapons Program
4 Mar 2018
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Flying squirrel, crowded and natural disaster areas, and un-laundered clothing: endemic flea-borne (murine) typhus, oriental/tropical rat flea, human flea, rats, mice, dogs, and cats. Fatality rate: south american: how did this happen, transmitted through ticks (dermacentor spp. ) If we get typhus in our tick population, this can cause a problematic outbreak: topical ointments (stop these things from attaching to the body) Fleas and lice (diagram - picture on phone: requires blood meals ~50 eggs per day for adult fleas, requires blood meals ~8nits per day, up to 30 days for adult louse. Vector transmission: vector-borne diseases: transfer of an infectious agent from host to host via hematophagus arthropods. Itching and passing onto your friend route: via hugs. Shell vial technique: culture in a tube to look at the organism after 7-14 days on a slide, cell staining assay, pcr based assays, gathering bacteria, breaking it up with enzymes and running on a gel, bsl-3 pathogen.
