Secondly, they produced the first clearly recognizable description of diseases and epidemics. Also in Greece, Galen a physician and natural scientist of the Golden Age 2nd century created the Cold Cream of Roses. Although slightly altered, Cold Cream of Roses appeared in the British Pharmacopeia of 1932. The Greek advancements in medicine gave way to how we treat and discover diseases. It is actually the staff of the Greek healing god, Asklepios, that is the official symbol of medicine world
Heather’s WBC count was at 18,000 WBC/µL. How do the results obtained from the spinal tap rule out viral encephalitis? Diplococci was present in the CSF and this is a common result if the patient has bacterial meningitis. If the patient
There he worked on a liver extract that successfully treated pernicious anemia, though he was unable to isolate the active agent. He also began to study amino acids and peptides, the building blocks of proteins. WORK DURING WORLD WAR II As war broke out around the world, Cohn helped develop a process of blood fractionation, which separated the different proteins in blood plasma. Plasma fractions from human blood provided valuable medical treatments. One fraction, serum albumin, helped save patients who were in shock.
He is the first scientist to record precise descriptions of fungi, protozoa, and bacteria (“Microbiology’s”). Louis Pasteur postulated the germ theory of disease which states “microorganisms are the causes of infectious disease. While Pasteur could not prove his theory, another scientist by the name of Robert Koch was able to. Procedures known as “Koch’s postulates” are principles that link microorganisms to specific diseases. The “Golden age” of microbiology occurred in the late 1800’s, this is when many infectious diseases were identified (cliffsnotes.com).
After improved understanding of the causes of disease there was understanding that you could cure a disease. Behring used this and Koch’s work to isolate anti toxins that would otherwise ,harm the body, to fight Diphtheria, Behring then found a way to inject it. Paul Ehrlich ( a member of Koch’s team) used his team to build on this work , he knew that certain dyes stained specific microbes (Koch’s work) furthermore with Behring’s work Paul tres to find a cure for syphillis a “magic bullet” that would only target the microbes and not the body. He managed to research seven years which was only made possible because of government funds. In 1909 Dr Hata had joined the research team and he reviewed the previous experiments.
Unknown Lab Report: Enterobacter cloacae Jessica Sainvil Professor Cupido Bio 253L1 Thu 9:30-12:30 Due Date: 12/6/12 Unknown#103 Introduction The bacterium Enterobacter cloacae isolated from the given #103 was a Gram-negative Rod. The purpose of this lab was to isolate and identify the genus and species of an unknown bacterium. It is important to identify an unknown microorganism because knowing how the bacteria work and how it is structured means knowing how it can affect humans. Unknown bacteria may also be used clinically many pharmaceutical drugs are based on products made by organisms (Katzung, B.G.2004). In order to identify the unknown organism a series of tests were performed.
In order to find out which antibiotics work on the bacteria, doing an agar plate test is the best way to get answers. Results; I tested the affect of a series of antibiotics on two ranges of cultures. E.Coli and S.Albus. I used four agar plates. Two for E.Coli and two for S.Albus.
Adolfo Peraza Antibiotic Resistance Lab Report Introduction Antibiotic resistant genes are found on plasmids. Cattle feeders add antibiotics to the cattle food in enhance the growth of the cow. The bacteria become immune and resistant to this antibiotic. Tetracycline is a main antibiotic for the enhancement. Bacteria have been traced in E. coli that contain the antibiotic resistant gene.
Because natural selection occurred. As with Staphylococcus aureus, a few bacteria were resistant to penicillin. Therefore, they were selected over and over again to reproduce, until the entire population of bacteria became resistant to penicillin. A new antibiotic called methicillin became available in 1959 to treat penicillin-resistant bacterial strains, but by 1997, 40% of hospital staph infections were caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Now, community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) can spread freely through the general populace, particularly when people are in close contact.
The first example is the prophylactic us of antibiotics in fish farms. This has led to more resistance bacteria strains which can transfer resistance to human pathogens. This in turn has promoted the evolution and spread of genes that are resistant regardless of their origin. Although the use of antibiotics by humans is not the only reason for the resistance problems, you can find strains of antibiotic resistance in fungi and bacteria that are in the soil. Our pets are reservoirs for carrying strains of antibiotic resistance bacteria that can be transferred to humans.