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Brucella: Introduction, Morphology, Pathogenecity, Lab Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
Introduction of Brucella Major-General Sir David Bruce, in 1886 isolated Brucella from a spleen of the fatal case, in Malta and the disease called brucellosis. Brucellosis is essentially an infection of animals ( zoonotic disease) mainly of domestic animals, caused by genus Brucella. The other names of brucellosis include (human /animal disease)- Malta fever/Bang's disease Mediterranean fever/epizootic abortion Undulant fever/enzootic abortion Rock fever of Gibraltar/slinking of calves Contagious abortion/spontaneous abortion Gastric fever/ram epididymitis Scientific Classification of Brucella Domain:...
Rotavirus: Introduction, Morphology, Pathogenesis, Lab Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
History of Rotavirus Rotavirus was discovered by Ruth Bishop and colleagues in 1973 and was described as found in children with gastroenteritis. In 1974, Thomas Henry Flewett suggested the name rotavirus after observing that, when viewed through an electron microscope, a rotavirus particle looks like a wheel (rota in Latin), and later the name was officially recognized by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) four years later. Vaccine for this virus was licensed in...
Helicobacter pylori: Introduction, Morphology, Pathogenecity, Lab Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
Introduction of Helicobacter pylori Helicobacter pylori are spiral bacteria from the stomach that were seen nearly 125 years ago (1896 by Salmon) and subsequently by others but had been misinterpreted. In 1983, Marshall and Warren described Camphylobacteria as organisms causing colonization in the human stomach. At the same time, Rollason et. al.( 1984), we're also seeing these bacteria in the gastric biopsy specimen. The organism was named Campylobacter pyloridis by Marshal et. al.(1984), later changed to Campylobacter...