BIS 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Human Ecology, Zoonosis, Human Microbiome Project
26 Jan 2018
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The antibiotic was recovered from unculturable bacteria! After growing colonies, overlay with a pathogen and see if any killed the pathogen (means it was producing antibiotics) > teixobactin. May or not be a pathogen pathogen: biological agent that causes disease to its host disease: injurious physiological activity caused by the continuous irritation by a primary causal factor and expressed in symptoms. Infectious: caused by pathogen, can spread from a diseased to a healthy host. 65% of deaths caused by infectious diseases. Non-infectious: caused by an environmental or host factor, not spread. Cause of death in high-income countries are non-infectious sources of human disease. Host jump : mutation occurs that allows it to infect humans and not the original host zoonotic disease: an infectious disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans. Animal to human but not to other humans. Animal to human to humans (limited or long outbreak)
