NATS 1670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Opportunistic Infection, Aspergillosis, Unicellular Organism
25 Mar 2014
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It is a bit larger than bacteria; 5-10 microbes in size, oval shaped, looks like a lemon in some ways. Yeast-you can use yeast to make breads, etc. It is involved in human disease, though it is quite rare to have a yeast infection that can risk your life: eukaryotic unicellular organism. Involved in human diseases such as: yeast infections, opportunistic infections (e. g. aids)-hiv aids kills the important cells in the immune system. 40 million people around the globe are infected with hiv. Today we are using more drugs against cancer, though they are not very selective. In terms of organ transplant, patients must take drugs to weaken their immune system so it doesn"t reject the new organ. Used in the food industry: baker"s yeast, alcohol production. Filamentous fungi with a mycellial structure: mycellial is a highly branched system of tubes that contain mobile cytoplasm with many nuclei.
