by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | May 28, 2020
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Most people who fall sick with COVID-19 will experience mild to moderate symptoms and recover without special treatment.The virus that causes COVID-19 is mainly...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Drug safety is a major focus of pharmaceutical microbiology. Pathogenic bacteria, fungi such as yeasts and moulds and toxins produced by microorganisms are all possible contaminants of medicines; although stringent, regulated processes are in place to ensure the risk...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Infection and Immunity Inflammation is concerned with the studies on research and how it provides new insights into the interactions between bacterial, fungal and parasitic pathogens and their hosts. Specific areas of interest include mechanisms of molecular...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms or stops their growth. Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped according to the microorganisms they act primarily against. The main classes of antimicrobial agents are disinfectants nonselective antimicrobials such...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Pediatric Infectious Diseases are those infections that cause in newborns, children, adolescents. If a child has a recurring or persistent disease caused by an infectious agent such as bacteria, a fungus, a parasite, or other rare infection, a pediatric infectious...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Infectious diseases are disorders caused by pathogenic organisms – such as viruses, bacteria, or fungus. They are normally harmless but under certain conditions, some organisms can be fatal and can cause death too. Acinetobacter, Anthrax, Aspergillus, Bird flu...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) also referred to as Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD) are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex. More than 30 different bacteria,...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Major developments have taken place in diseases, diagnosis and treatment of microbial infections. Infectious disease may be an unavoidable fact of life. There are many strategies available to help protect humans from infectious diseases. With the advent of the modern...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Molecular microbiology deals with molecular mechanisms and physiological processes of microbes and their utilization in production of biotechnology products and medicines such as vaccines, antibodies. It also involves advancement in pathogenicity of microbes....
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Some emerging infections are caused by microbes that originate in nonhuman vertebrates. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was first noted in New Mexico in 1993. The disease is caused by Sin Nombre virus, which is endemic in the deer mouse namely Peromyscus maniculatus....
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases. Widespread immunity due to vaccination is largely responsible for the worldwide eradication of smallpox and the restriction of diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus from much of the...
by Clinicalmicrobiology & Infectious Diseases | Apr 30, 2019
The technologic changes that have taken place during the past years lead the microbiological sciences to a new era. The study describes some recent advances in several fields of microbiology such as the sequentiation of the complete genomes of free-living...
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