BPS 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Agostino Bassi, Paul Erlich, Sexually Transmitted Infection
22 Apr 2015
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Main causes: pneumonia, tuberculosis, influenza (lasted until 1950"s) Main causes: heart disease, cancer, stroke, lower respiratory infection, traffic accidents: kill people who you believed were the cause of the disease and when they died, Cause of disease was unknown the disease would disappear. Post natal infections - 30% death rate: likely you wouldn"t survive, common to develop and infection from giving birth. Maternal mortality rates: dramatic drop due to penicillin in 1930"s. Surgery survival rate less than 30: main reason: infection. Ww1 and ww2 - more deaths due to infection than combat: most common: sexually transmitted diseases. Louis pasteur develops pasteurization 1864: reduce disease by removing bacteria from the food we eat, heat up milk, and milk becomes safer to drink. Lister develops antisepsis: spray chemicals to kill bacteria improves life expectancy. H. c. gram stains bacteria in 1884: colour bacteria different colours, blue = gram positive, red = gram negative, different colours because chemical reactions are different.
