BIOL 22100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Flaccid Paralysis, Neuromuscular Junction, Brucellosis
26 Aug 2016
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It can cause abortion storms and can be transmitted this way through bull semen. Dogs are commonly infected as well as 10% of stray dogs carry this disease. Elk can get it commonly too and a vaccine is either airdropped in hay or shot with vaccine bullets. Listeria is a dangerous foodborne pathogen can be found in milk products or processed meats or soft cheeses very serious in pregnant women as it can cause stillbirths or infant meningitis. Botulism is a spore carrying organism that is present is soil. Can infect by spores getting into your bloodstream. A part is a peptidase that prevents acetylcholine release. This results in flaccid paralysis where the muscles cannot contract. Can contract it from improper canning of foods. Infant botulism is where it colonizes the intestine before the native flora can, can be solved with specific antitoxin. Can be found in honey as well because sugar concentration cant kill spores.
