MICR 3330 Midterm: MICR3330 (up till midterm)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MICR 3330
• Professor: Peter Krell

Document Summary

Index case: the first person known to have the disease (aka patient zero: ex. Serological evidence: antibodies for the virus are found in body fluids (ie. blood) to indicate that the virus was there at some point. Zoonosis: viruses that can transfer from non-human animals to us (rabies) Fomites: nonliving material (as opposed to dead) that carries disease (blankets used by the infected transmitted smallpox) Va(cid:272)(cid:272)i(cid:374)es do(cid:374)(cid:859)t cause the disease but replicate it (eg. for the ebolavirus the ebov gp is exchanged for vsv g protein (both envelope proteins)) Eshmuna code: passed a law saying if your dog fatally bites someone, it is your responsibility. Egyptian hieroglyphs: drew a priest with a crippled leg. Ramses: the mummy of pharaoh ramses v had pox on him, perhaps smallpox? (dna analysis can verify) Hector: was all frothy and mad during the trojan war.