BIOL 22100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Miliary Tuberculosis, Dpt Vaccine, Airborne Disease

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 22100
• Professor: Tom Walter

Document Summary

It has an adhesin protein that allows the mycoplasma to bind to our cells and stick. It then releases hydrogen peroxide to cause pneumonia. The treatment can last up to 4 weeks because it produces a protein that binds to the variable region of antibodies to antibodies can bind to bacterium. You can"t use b-lactams because there is no cell wall you tend to use tetracycline. Pertussis or whooping cough is a reemerging disease in the united states. It is an ab toxin and the a part alters a protein that sterically inhibits camp synthesis. Diphtheria tetanus acellular pertussis (dtap vaccine vaccinated these listed diseases) Dtp that was previously used is not very effective so it still is lasting. Tuberculosis is a mycobacteria acid fast cell wall. It can cause fever weight, loss, and cough with blood. Granulomas can occur and damage bone or tissue. This is spread by respiratory droplets or by aerosols.