BMB 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Aortic Valve, Neurodegeneration, Gonorrhea

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Micro and Molecular Biology
• Course: BMB 300
• Professor: Edward Bernard

Document Summary

G: only major gram (-) cocci that causes disease. Causes immune response where cells swarm the affected area and cause a white pus. can be asymptomatic or symptomatic. Ciliated cells cannot beat the gonorrhea out of the body. Syphilis: some symptoms. occur 3-90 days after infection. Only main symptom is the sore (stage 1). Forms a rash. after this part, the immune system can keep it is check for up to 30 years. Stage 3: can rupture aortic valve and neurodegeneration. Hiv: breast milk can infect babies but usually it can be neutralized before it is passed. Lot of friction and damage to epithelial layer and hiv can go into those tears and infect the individual. Spread of hiv: reservoir and source humans, transmission direct contact with bodily fluids, blood id50 1000-100,000 ip (infection particles)/ml, semen id50 10-50 ip/ml (infection of t cells of malt, breast milk id50 unknown.