Microbiology and Immunology

I've been having so much trouble getting a dignoses for my autoimmune disease that it's becomming very frustrating. People are even beginning to look at me as if I am a hypocondriach! First I was told I had rheumatoid arthritis, then I was told I had fibromyalgia, now that I've just recently gotten sick I've been told that it's not fibro but something much worse than that but they probably won't be able to give me an accurate diagnoses for even several more years yet! Her OPNINION she said is Lupus but it is not definite. She's apparently just gonna say that I have a connective tissue disease but then tells me it could be mixed connective tissue disease so we …

well this time to harp on leprosy and tb both in leprosy and tuberculosis ,its the cell mediated immunity and not the humoral immunity that works but in AIDS where cell mediated immunity is depresssed , tuberculosis is more common than leprosy...... what does that reallly mean......

Hello! How are you today? I'm a Microbiologist and I ride horses. I graduated from AUM (Auburn University at Montgomery) in 2002 and I work for the Alabama State Lab. I'm am 27 years old. I am trained in: DFA Rabies testing per CDC protocol and process in specimens (opening animal heads, dissecting brains) Gonostat Enterics (which I'm working now) E.coli 0157:H7 testing per Reference (CDC) protocol Processing Parasitology I really enjoy Reference Bacteriology and Enteric pathogens. I also ride hunter/Jumper horses and have 2 of my own; a Thoroughbred and a Hanoverian/Thoroughbred. I horse show on the weekends and train my own horses. We also hav…

Since the subject still is debatable, where do you stand and why?

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4941

the virus that causes rabies in dogs,enters our body thru cuts , travels upwards to brains and creates psychological changes that make the dog bite every one(run amok),so that it can propagate itself again dont u think thats 2 smart/coincident?

okay my problem is this, im doing a project comparing two kits to detect salmonella sp in soup samples, the two kits are the API 20E kit and the remel IDS rapID kit, does anyone know much about these os where i can get any good info on them, im not finding much on the net, thanks.....

Branching in the phylogenetic trees and time and scale of events look different whether its a protien gene based or rRNA based tree. Which should we believe? What does it mean? This has me stumped, could someone please explain?

Hello, I want to know the GC mole % for the genomic DNA of a bacteria strain, but don't have the appropriate apparatus. Do anyone know any company or university that provide such service?

HI, could someone please help? I'm having a hard time explaining why ribosomal RNA sequence is a good choice for comparison between microorganisms? Thanks a bunch, JD

[does microbes can produce diesel?,if that can we carry it out in lab?

scientists have isolated the protein in monkeys that prevents the two single strands of RNA from becoming DNA. Whether or not it can be used to the likes of humans is still uncertain, but it gives light to some other possibilities. This is in sciencemag if u would like to read the entire story.

Assuming (please, go with me on this) the Bible is a decent factual base, how much evidence is there for Smallpox or Type 1 or 2 Anthrax as the agent that plagued Egypt in the book of Exodus? I am new, and would appreciate some help. If this should be phrased differently, please let me know.

viruses can utilize their genetic matierial to the max extent by transcripting in a sequence in one fashion and then by doing the same thing by shifting the reading frame to the next position and sysnthesize a new peptide...... this seems too intelligent but would it be really posssible that the resulting protien could make sesnse and could really be utilizred for the viruses purpose of continuing its life........ what do ye think....

i wonder sometimes when i think of the viruses..... HIV creates a havoc when it gets into humans CORYZA/RHINO-mutate so quickly that they cannot be conqered by chemicals. what when both these charecters are mixed in one...... will that problem pose a danger to the human populatopn

Why are the fetus and placenta, which resemble an allograft in that they express paternal genes, not rejected by the mother? Paradoxically, the fetus survives pregnancy despite the laws of classical transplantation immunology.

I was talking to a friend earlier who was doing a research paper on AIDS. He mentioned that it is arguable that HIV can infect males through vaginal intercourse. I thought vaginal intercourse was just as high of a risk factor as any other. I looked at some papers on the internet and some people don't even think it can spread in this manner. Though there are a number of heterosexual cases each year, some of these involve anal sex, which is a high risk. Some argue that the remaining cases are men who don't want to admit homosexual intercourse. Is there any documented proof that an HIV positive woman can infect a male? I came up with very little on my search. Unfortunat…

Does anyone know of any good ELISA blocking agents? Im doing a two step ELISA where i bind the first protein then block then bind my secondary protein but i cant stop my secondary protein from binding even if there is no primary protein and ive blocked the well ( or attempted to) Ive used BSA, skim milk, peptone tryptone, egg yolk. Thanks