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What is antimicrobial resistance? Antimicrobial resistance happens when microorganisms (such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites) change when they are...
Medical Microbiology/Infections & Diseases/Immunology
the study of the pathogenic microbes and the role of microbes in human illness. Includes the study of microbial pathogenesis and epidemiology and is related to the study of disease pathology and immunology. This area of microbiology also covers the study of human microbiota, cancer, and the tumor microenvironment.
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In 1890, Emil Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato reported an extraordinary experiment. They immunized rabbits with tetanus and then collected serum...
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Autoimmunity plays a role in more than 80 diseases. Following are brief descriptions of some of the many diseases in...
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We present some words you might have come across when reading an immunology-related topics, but didn't know or didn't have...
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What Are Some Other Problems Related to Autoimmune Diseases? Having a chronic disease can affect almost every part of your...
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One of the main hypotheses used to explain the increased risk for infection and mortality during pregnancy has been the...
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How Are Autoimmune Diseases Diagnosed? Autoimmune diseases often don’t show a clear pattern of symptoms at first. So diagnosing them...
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What Is Autoimmunity? When your body is attacked—perhaps by a virus or germs on a nail you stepped on—your immune...
By Cornelius Omatola HBV infection is global health problem with over 350 million HBV carriers worldwide and over one million...
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The use of human pathogens as weapons has a long history. Lord Jeffery Amherst used smallpox against Native American populations...
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There are some general misconceptions about typhoid fever, a disease caused by Salmonella typhi. However, this article intends to provide...
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Leukemia is the unchecked proliferation of an abnormal clone of haematopoietic cells. Typically, leukemic cells respond poorly or inappropriately to...
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Stillbirth is defined as no sign of life in a neonate at delivery, and it is one of the most...
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by Christa L. Walker and Robert E. Black Zinc deficiency increases risk of infection and growth failure, and is a...
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Historically, smallpox epidemic has been devastating to the Americas and the world in general. And its history, though the virus...
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There have been indications that influenza A virus can now be used as a bioterrorism agents, according to a seminar delivered...
The virus Ebola virus belongs to the viral family Filoviridae, a family containing another deadly viral pathogen known as Marburg...
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One of the most proffered solutions to prevent infection due to drinking of contaminated water is to boil the water,...
