ANT 333 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chemotherapy, Hysterectomy, Growth Factor

• School: Emory University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 333
• Professor: Konner Melvin

Document Summary

1: cervical cancer, breast cancer, asthma, copd, coronary artery disease (cad, stroke. Increasingly serious problem in developed and developing world. Oro-fecal contamination: major infectious gids are water or food borne. E. coli (major cause of diarrhea worldwide) In normal cases, the water is reabsorbed by the body in the intestines, but in diarrhea, the the stool has too much water to reabsorb. E. coli enters the body via fecal-oral route, usually with contaminated food or beverage. Most strains colorize the small intestine and produce watery diarrhea. Others invade the large intestine and cause dysentery. Common in travelers, can be food/water borne. Incubation period: 2 hours to 6 days. Amebiasis: amoebic dysentery (bloody diarrhea) is an intestinal inflammation, especially in the colon, that can lead to severe diarrhea with mucus or blood in the feces. Attachment -> endosome -> lysosome -> genetic replication (genomic rna) -> assembly -> release. Vp4 spikes and the outer shell are shed and enters the cytoplasm.