Essays Tagged: "Streptococcus"

Submitted for Medical/Surgical Nursing course. This is a health sciences essay regarding super infections/antibiotic resistant infections.

destroys fascia and fat with secondary necrosis of the subcutaneous tissue. Most commonly caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as group A strep (GAS), although other aerobic and anaerobic path ...

(5 pages) 218 0 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Toxic Shock Syndrome what is it? identify symptoms icidence rates individuals affected treatment options prevention strategies

. The original TSS caused by staphylococcus aureus bacteria, and the newer type caused by a group A Streptococcus bacteria, called streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). TSS and STSS have slightly ... in; and rapid breathing, leading to shock.Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome can happen following a Streptococcus infection in the body, most often a skin infection or an infected wound. Within 48 hou ...

(5 pages) 47 0 3.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Famous Biologists

and of new and one of old.Griffith worked with mice, animals which are extremely susceptible to the Streptococcus bacteria. The basic experimental technique was to inject an unfortunate mouse with bac ...

(5 pages) 36 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Bad Breath (Halitosis) Report

to be highly proportionate in the plaque among people with halitosis, are veillonella, actinomyes, streptococcus parasanguinis, camyplobacter concisus, megasphaera, and neisseria. It is likely that t ...

(1 pages) 1900 0 2.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Lactic Acid Bacteria

in nature including plant leaves (e.g. Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc), the animal's oral cavity (e.g. Streptococcus mutans), digestive system (e.g. Enterococcus faecalis), genitourinary tract (e.g. Lact ... us, Lactococcus, Lactobacillus, Lactosphaera, Leuconostoc, Microbacterium, Oenococcus, Pediococcus, Streptococcus, Tetragenococcus, Vagococcus and Weissella, (Jay, 2000). They can be categorized into ...

(13 pages) 101 0 5.0 May/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

Bacteria and Gram-Staining

. Two connected bacilli are known as diplobacillus. Bacilli occurring in a chain are referred to as streptococcus. (Postlethwait and Hopson, 2009)In bacteria, there are many structures. The first stru ...

(5 pages) 0 0 0.0 Mar/2013

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Most important discovery by man

biotics, nothing much could be done by anybody and deaths on large scale were claimed. For instance Streptococcus pyogenes was the cause of half of all post-birth deaths[2] and Staphylococcus aureus w ... ence, 56(2), 83.Cleary PP, Schlievert PM, Handley JP (1992). Clonal basis for resurgence of serious Streptococcus pyogenes disease in the 1980s. 339, 518-521.Tulkens PM (1991. Intracellular distributi ...

(3 pages) 0 0 0.0 Jul/2013

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology