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Discussion of Bacterial Meningitis

past three decades (Freeman, 1997), the idea of one vaccine to address three strains of meningitis is nothing short of phenomenal....

Bacterial Meningitis: Overview and Case Study

(Parini, 2001). The term "itis", in turn, is used simply to describe the inflammation. The organisms invade the meninges and, wi...

About Bacterial Meningitis

multi-organ failure" (Appold, 2008, p. 56). However, as the bacteria spread into the spinal fluid, which surrounds the brain, the ...

Children and Meningitis

sets in (which is actually blood poisoning) that a rash, not unlike that, that one might get from an acute case of poison ivy or p...

Meningitis and Africans in a Cultural Competency Case Study

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

Overview of Meningitis

to all children as part of their routine immunizations have reduced the occurrence of invasive disease due to H. influenzae. To...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

Australian Nursing Council and Meningococcal Meningitis

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

Overview of Fungal Meningitis

This research paper presents an overall view of fungal meningitis and includes a description of outbreak that occurred in the fall...

Basin Baths and Nosocomial Infections

This research paper offers a brief literature review that indicates that basin baths promote bacterial growth and, therefore, incr...

Potentially Hazardous Foods

Any time the pH is 4.6 or less this is accomplished for most spore-forming pathogens (FDA, 2009). A pH of 4.0 or less, however, i...

Understanding Evolution and Natural Selection

now infamous journey. Darwin was in fact very familiar with the work of his grandfather and indeed with the work of others who ha...

Anthrax Cause and Response

The disease known as Anthrax is caused by the highly infectious microorganism Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria...

Symptoms and Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Cellulitis is an "infection of the skin"; boils are "pus-filled infections of hair follicles"; abscesses are "collections of pus u...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Case Report

neck & trunk involvement and vomiting (two-and-a-half year old); tripping, voice change, difficulty swallowing, inability to sit u...

Reevaluation of Heart Disease's Causative Factors

In eight pages this paper examines current research pertaining to heart disease in a consideration of molecular, bacterial, and vu...

Salmonella Contamination

This paper considers the question of how this bacterial pathogen is transmitted to humans and how it we can guard against it. The...

Antimicrobial Therapy, an Overview

This research paper describes the categories used to classify antimicrobial agents, the differences between viral and bacterial in...

Diagnosing and Treating Conjunctivitis

This 8 page paper lists the notes for a series of power point slides concerning the problem of bacterial conjunctivitis. This pape...

Bacterial Vaginosis

BV is caused by a "lactobacilli depletion" combined with excessive growth of primarily "Gram-negative pathogens" (Lavan, 2005, p. ...

Bacterial Pathogens' Evolution

as primitive. Interestingly, however, the specific etiologies of these pathogens have changed as well. This has occurred as a re...

Fear of Hand Sanitizer, a Statistical Sampling

time; there is now a class of staphylococcus bacteria that is resistant to all known antibiotics and has been blamed for the death...

Overview of Meningococcal Disease

can progress from initial symptoms: "to coma and death as quickly as 12 to 48...

Antibiotics Resisting Bacteria and the Theory of Evolution

are prokaryotic organisms. This translates to mean that their cellular nuclei lack a nuclear membrane. Consequently, even though...

Examination of Biodiversity

would occupy only "1.4 percent of the planets land surface, roughly equivalent to Alaska and Texas combined" (2002, 86), and yet a...

Overview of Pneumonia

or Aspergillus often come in contact with the patient through their inhalation of contaminated aerosols. We now know that an infe...

Philadelphia Teenagers and the Threat of Chlamydia

In seven pages Chlamydia is discussed in terms of description and bacterial consequences within the context of Philadelphia teens ...

Cell Structure Aspects and Current Research

In ten pages cell structure aspects are examined in terms of current research and include a consideration of nerve cells, cell div...

Overview of Lyme Disease

In fifteen pages this paper examines Lyme Disease in an overview of symptoms, how it is contracted, diagnosis, treatment, and the ...

Discussion Questions on Classroom Discussions

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at discussions carried out in the classroom. The pedagogical value of these discussion...