Microbiology

What happens when you get a bacterial infection? What about mutations? Find out here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/survival/clock/index.html

E. coli infection mechanism, intracellular infection by Salmonella, bacterial conjugation, viral infection, viral sub-unit reassortment, click on "animations" at top of page, and scroll through menu http://www.biointeractive.org/

bacterial ID virtual lab, click on "Biointeractive's top 5" #1 http://www.biointeractive.org/

Here is the link for Snow and the cholera epidemic in London http://www.theplumber.com/. Click on "to Plumbing History Articles", then "Plagues & Epidemics". It is all interesting, but "the Cholera Story" (after the second picture but before the third) is where you want to be. Answer the questions on the lab from this site.

If you want to learn more about cholera, there is a great site http://www.sph.unc.edu/courses/john_snow/prologue.htm that will take you further into the cholera story, and you can hear excerpts from Snow's journal, as well as learn more of the details.

bacteria morphology http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/wellmeyer/interact/bacteria.htm

****Here is our link to epidemics http://science-education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/diseases/activities/activities_toc.htm where you will click on "protecting the herd" to learn more about the factors that control epidemics.

here is the cast of characters for your immune system..click on this pic once you get to the page http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aids/immune.html

replication Herpes simplexhttp://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhib_infectious/hiv_antivirals_01.jsp

http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/microbiology/herpessimplex.html

excellent HIV cycle explanation, malaria interactive http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhib_infectious/hiv_antivirals_01.jsp

HIV retrovirus replication http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/microbiology/hiv.html

Nova ScienceNOW 1918 Flu http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3318/02.html

viral recombination..as in flu http://www.biointeractive.org/

immune system http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/inflam.html

Winogradsky column http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/microbiology/winogradsky.html

plate streak http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/microbiology/streakplate.html

various medical slideshows http://www.emedicinehealth.com/medical-pictures/article_em.htm