Today students took a short quiz on cell requirements and classification.
We barely got started on our introduction to our disease research project. Students must choose 3 choices from the list below that they would like to research. Students will only be researching one disease but no two students can research the same disease. There are many other childhood diseases that I will accept ie. rubella, norovirus. Please ask your parents and grandparents for information concerning childhood diseases.
Disease Detective
| Bacterial Pathogen | Disease Name | Viral Pathogen | Disease Name | |
| Bacillus anthracis | anthrax | Varicella spp. | Chicken Pox | |
| Bordetella pertussis | whooping cough | Vaicella spp. | Small Pox | |
| Clostridium botulinum | botulism | Polio | poliomyelitis | |
| Clostridium perfringens | gas gangrene | Hepatitis A | | |
| Clostridium tetani | tetanus | Hepatitis B | | |
| Corynebacterium diphtheria | diphtheria | Hepatitis C | HCV | |
| Escherichia coli | acute pyelonephritis | Hantavirus | Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome | |
| Francisella tularensis | tularemia or rabbit fever | Ebola | Hemorrhagic Fever | |
| Hemophilus influenzae | meningitis | Legionella pneumophila | Legionnaires Disease | |
| Lactobacillus acidophilus | cavities | SARS coronavirus | Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrom | |
| Mycobacterium leprae | leprosy (Hansen's disease) | Parasitic Pathogens | Disease Name | |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis | tuberculosis | Plasmodium spp. | Malaria | |
| Neisseria meningitidis | spinal menigitis | Trypanosoma spp. | African Sleeping Sickness | |
| Rickettsia richettsii | Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever | Leishmania donovani | Dum-Dum Fever, kala-azar | |
| Rickettsia prowazekii | typhus | Enterobius vermicularis | perianal pruritus (pinworm) | |
| Salmonella typhi | typhoid fever | Nosopsyllus fasciatus (vector) | plague | |
| Salmonella typhimurium | food poisoning | Ixodes spp (vector) | Lymes disease | |
| Shigella dysenteriae | dysentery | Giardia lamblia | Giardia | |
| Streptococcus mutans | cavities | Tenia spp. | Tapeworm | |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | pneumonia | Trichinella spp. | Trichinosis | |
| Streptococcus (group A) | scarlet fever | Fungal Pathogens | Disease Name | |
| Streptococcus (group A) | rheumatic fever | Ringworm | Dermatophytosis | |
| Treponema pertenue | yaws | Trichophyton rubrum | Athlete’s Foot | |
| Vibrio cholerae | cholera | | | |
| Yersinia pestis | Plague | | | |
| Staphylococcus aureus | Staph infections | | | |
