Brock Biology of Microorganisms (15th Edition)
Brock Biology of Microorganisms (15th Edition)
15th Edition
ISBN: 9780134261928
Author: Michael T. Madigan, Kelly S. Bender, Daniel H. Buckley, W. Matthew Sattley, David A. Stahl
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 30, Problem 1AQ
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Why an individual may get a common cold or twice a year but measles was a one time-occurrence?

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There is a wide range of airborne viral diseases such as measles, mumps, chicken pox, and rubella can affect humans. Measles induces systemic infections and also induce a variety of serious problems, such as pneumonia, inner ear infections, and encephalomyelitis. Measles may last for a week with cough, fever, and a rash may persist.

The respiratory diseases range from mild, self-limiting, like common cold to lethal entities such as pulmonary embolism, lung cancer, acute asthma, and bacterial pneumonia.

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Cold is considered as a common respiratory illness due to its rapid onset. The causative agent of common cold is Rhinovirus. Rhinoviruses are single stranded plus-sense RNA viruses and they are a genus of the Picornaviridae family. There are other viruses that can cause cold in humans, such as Coronavirus, Coxsackie virus, Adenovirus, Orthomyxovirus, and respiratory syncytial viruses. Since a wide range of viruses causes the common cold the human defense system cannot able to develop immunity to all of them. Therefore, chances of getting cold is frequent.

In contrast, a single virus, called Paramyxovirus, causes the measles. Since, a single virus causes the disease; the human immune system may produce a lifelong immunity against that particular disease. Therefore, if an individual experienced measles, it may be a one-time occurrence.

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