One type of harmful bacteria is Tuberculosis, caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. This disease is transmitted through the air, but is nearly impossible to catch with one social interaction with someone infected. If you are exposed constantly, though, you could catch this disease. 90% of the people who are infected with the disease will stay inactive, meaning they still have the bacteria in them, but they show no signs or symptoms and can't spread the disease. These people, however, can become active and become sick. This means that the remaining 10% have the active bacteria can result in serious sickness, even death.
Tuberculosis is an infection that spreads in your body through the lymph nodes and bloodstream. Although these bacteria can travel anywhere within the body, they are most likely to end up in the lungs. These bacteria kill the tissue in the organs they infect.
Symptoms of TB include: A bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer, weight loss, coughing up blood or mucus, weakness or fatigue, fever and chills and night sweats. Although TB can be fatal, there are ways to treat it. To treat TB, usually you take antibiotics ranging from six to nine month to destroy the disease, and the differences in antibiotics depend on your age, overall health, drug resistance, form of TB and the infected location in the body. People who have inactive TB can also take these antibiotics to prevent it from becoming active.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Mycobacteria are waxy celled, pleomorphic rods, which range from 2-4 micrometers in length, and .2-.5 um in width. These bacilli cells also have a high concentration of lipids in them, called mycolic acids. Because of this, they have a resistance to many antibiotics. Also, these lipids are hydrophobic and affect the permeability, allowing of liquids or gases to pass through, in the cell wall. These are found in habitats such as water or soil. This specific TB causing bacteria has been causing harm since before human times. Evidence shows that this transferred over to humans through cows in 8000-4000 B.C., through milk consumption. For more information on this bacteria, go to this website
http://www.webmd.com/lung/understanding-tuberculosis-basics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tuberculosis.html
http://tinyurl.com/27rmhuw
http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Mtuberculosis.html
http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/tuberculosis.html
Hey Megan!
ReplyDeleteThis was a super neat post! I love the pictures, especially the diagram of the spread of the bacteria. Great explanations of the spread/symptoms.
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Great post Megan. I find it very interesting that 99% of bacteria are good and only 1% bad. On somebody else's blog the figure was around 85%. verall a very informative post.
ReplyDeleteGreat post Megan, I did Tuberculosis as my icky yucky disease project in 7th grade science, and after reading this post all of the horrible things about Tuberculosis started coming back to me. I also leaned new things about TB which i had never known before, so very informative post and after reading about TB I really hope my TB test for Waveny comes back negative for many reasons.
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ReplyDeleteI really like the way you started off the post and it really worked for introducing the bacteria you chose. You did a great job describing what this bacteria does to ones body when it infects them and how it does it. You also gave a good description on the structure of it and the disease that it can cause... Great job!
Great post Megan. Is there any factor (environmental, etc.) that allows the bacteria to stay inactive within it's human host?
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ReplyDeleteThere is no factor that allows Tuberculosis to stay inactive within its host. What it means for a person to have inactive Tuberculosis is that their immune system is that their immune system has successfully fought off the bacteria, but there is still remains of the bacteria. So, to answer the question, inactive bacteria is not inactive due to environmental factors, it is determined whether your body has fought off this disease or not.
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