BIOL 4334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Histoplasmosis, Rhabdomyolysis, Rodent
30 Sep 2016
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Zoonotic diseases that can be passed form animals to humans. Disease anything that causes organs or tissues to be abnormal. Lesion the effect of a disease on form, structure or function by their organs, or bodily tissue. Rabies 100% fatal once symptoms are shown. Long incubation period (can be weeks to a year) Stumbling, not acting in a normal way. Possibly useful because they will be more preyed upon than furious, could led to transmission of the disease when the host organism is eaten. Aggressive behaviors, nocturnal animals out during the day, the stuff of movies. Causes an acute and fatal encephalitis (swelling of the brain) Transmission can go from one mammal to another through any type of opening that comes in contact with the infected animals saliva. Diagnoses is only possible for microscopic analysis of brain tissue for microscopic lesions.
