An infection is caused by the invasion of by pathogenic organisms (bacteria, viruses or worms) into a host. These pathogenic organisms live and multiply in its host and cause diseases by this.
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Do organisms use detergents to fight off viruses?
Common advice against contracting bacteria or viruses is to wash your hands because soap dissolves the viruses' shell. Does any organism exploit this effect to protect against infection, e.g. by having detergents in their mucous membrane? If not,…
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Why are the bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections resistant to many antibiotics?
Why are the bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections resistant to many antibiotics, and why don't hospital acquired infections exist elsewhere ?
The infections that are caused in hospitals are usually a result of bacteria that are resistant…
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How does your body know when it is infected so it can invoke a fever?
How does your body know when it is infected with a virus or bacteria so it can invoke a fever or ramp up the immune system?
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Bacteria resistant to antibiotics?
If I use antibiotic on a specific type of bacteria, some will survive because it is resistant. Was this bacteria resistant to this antibiotic before it was even used, or did the bacteria develop resistance after the antibiotic is used?
How or why…
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Why isn't direct diagnosis of infectious disease through microscopes a common thing?
I'm not sure if I am being accurate about this but from what I know about diagnostics (watching House MD etc), if a doctor has a suspicion of a pathogenic infection then he/she usually prescribes corresponding medication without doing some kind of a…
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How does cold water help to overcome high fever?
Why cold water helps to overcome from high fever in body? As fever is inside the body and we're applying cold water over the body!
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Would boiling water kill microorganisms in clothing that had feces spilled on it?
Lets say there is a piece of clothing that had a small amount of human feces that spilled on it.
Would placing that clothing in boiling water destroy the microorganisms on that clothing?
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