in a Bacteriology Laboratory Exercise Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Isolates Used as Unknowns
Introduction This figure shows an agarose gel image of PCR products to differentiate bacterial species based on variation in the genome content.…
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Aims and Objectives To understand how the body prevents entry of micro-organisms. To understand the difference between innate and ac…
Man and Microbes
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A wide variety of other bacteria
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood borne retrovirus that was first recognised in 1981. Disease Between two weeks and seve…
HEPATITIS C VIRUS
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an RNA virus closely related to the Flavivirus group. Disease most cases of acute hepatitis C are asymptomati…
HEPATITIS B VIRUS
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) which causes hepatitis B is a DNA virus from the Hepadnavirus family. Disease HBV is a hepatotrophic virus a…