ENGLISH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TASK

GROUP MEMBERS : MAISARAH NORDIN RIDZUAN ROSLAN 4 MAY 2010

 

Discover Y. pestis in 1894 He is a Swiss/French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur Institute, during an epidemic of plague in Hong Kong

 PNEUMONIC PLAGUES SEPTICEMIC PLAGUES BUBONIC PLAGUES

Pneumonic plague is an infection in the lungs

bubonic plague is an infection of the buboes or lymph nodes.

septicemic plague is an infection in the blood stream.

THE PATHOGENS HISTORY

v RESPONSIBLE FOR A NUMBER OF HIGHMORTALITY EPIDEMICS THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY v BLACK DEATH THAT ACCOUNTED FOR THE DEATH OF AT LEAST ONE-THIRD OF THE EUROPEAN POPULATION BETWEEN 1347 AND 1353


 

Y. PESTIS
A gram-negative coccobacillus belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae gramis primarily a rodent pathogen infected via the rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis.

The Black Death Necrosis (gangrene) of the tissue cause by pneumonic Plague

Bubo formed in groin Inflamed lymph nodes where the bacteria ultimately migrate

EFFECTIVE ANTIBIOTICS :

1. STREPTOMYCIN 2. TETRACYCLINES 3. CHLORAMPHENICOL 4. WITH TREATMENT : v FATALITY RATES DROP TO 5-20%.

PATHOGEN]S CLASSIFICATION
has been classified as a CATEGORY A PATHOGEN requiring preparation for a possible terrorist attack.

SYMPTOM AND DISEASE PROGRESSION



BUBONIC PLAGUE

Incubation period of 2 6 days, days, when the bacteria is actively replicating.



Universally a general lack of energy Fever Headache and chills occur suddenly at the end of the incubation period
PNEUMONIC vINCUBATION PERIOD : 1-3 DAYS

THATS ALL FROM US

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