Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 39.5, Problem 2RIA
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Anthrax is a highly contagious disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, an endospore-forming, Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria. Anthrax may spread to humans by direct contact with infected animals, like goats, cattle, and sheep, and other animal products, more specifically hide. Brucellosis or undulant fever is caused by Brucella abortus, B. suis, and B. melitensis, coccobacilli species. Humans acquire brucellosis by consuming contaminated animal products and also through abrasions of the animal skin while handling Brucella infected mammals, like sheep, cattle, pigs, goats, and rarely, dogs.
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Prescott's Microbiology
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Ch. 39.1 - Prob. 3.1RIACh. 39.1 - What is the mechanism by which PTx kills host...Ch. 39.1 - Prob. 3.3RIACh. 39.1 - Describe the streptococcal exotoxins and how they...Ch. 39.1 - Prob. 4.2RIACh. 39.2 - What are the three stages of Lyme disease? What...Ch. 39.2 - Prob. 1RIACh. 39.2 - Prob. 2RIACh. 39.2 - Prob. 3RIACh. 39.2 - Prob. 4RIACh. 39.2 - How does transovarian passage occur?Ch. 39.3 - What are the chief differences between tuberculoid...Ch. 39.3 - How does H. pylori increase the local pH in its...Ch. 39.3 - Prob. 3MICh. 39.3 - Prob. 4MICh. 39.3 - Prob. 5MICh. 39.3 - Prob. 1.1RIACh. 39.3 - Why do you think the slow growth rate of M. leprae...Ch. 39.3 - Prob. 2.1RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 2.2RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 2.3RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 2.4RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 2.5RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 3.1RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 3.2RIACh. 39.3 - What is the difference between S. aureus and MRSA?Ch. 39.3 - Prob. 3.4RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 3.5RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 3.6RIACh. 39.4 - How do the neurological effects of botulinum toxin...Ch. 39.4 - To which E. coli class does the strain 0157:H7...Ch. 39.4 - How can Clostridium botulinum cause disease even...Ch. 39.4 - Compare the gastroenteritis caused by Vibrio...Ch. 39.4 - Prob. 2.1RIACh. 39.4 - Compare toxigenic E. coli disease with invasive...Ch. 39.4 - Prob. 2.3RIACh. 39.4 - Prob. 3.1RIACh. 39.4 - Prob. 3.2RIACh. 39.4 - Prob. 3.3RIACh. 39.5 - Prob. 1MICh. 39.5 - Prob. 1RIACh. 39.5 - Prob. 2RIACh. 39.5 - How is ornithosis transmitted?Ch. 39.5 - Prob. 4RIACh. 39.6 - What cells and tissues make up the pseudomembrane?Ch. 39.6 - Prob. 2MICh. 39.6 - Prob. 1RIACh. 39.6 - In both C. difficileassociated disease and...Ch. 39.6 - Prob. 3RIACh. 39 - Describe a typhoid carrier. How does one become a...Ch. 39 - Many consider cholera as the most severe form of...Ch. 39 - Compare the three stages of syphilis and Lyme...Ch. 39 - While many Vibrio cholerae strains are found in...Ch. 39 - The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme...
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