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Name: Bacterial Diseases in Humans
ID: m44607
Language: English (en)
Summary: By the end of this section, you will be able to:
  • Identify bacterial diseases that caused historically important plagues and epidemics
  • Describe the link between biofilms and foodborne diseases
  • Explain how overuse of antibiotic may be creating “super bugs”
  • Explain the importance of MRSA with respect to the problems of antibiotic resistance
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: antibiotic, antibiotic resistance, archaea, bacteria, bacterial disease, biofilm, Black Death, botulism, bubonic plague, CA-MRSA, disease migration, emerging disease, endemic disease, epidemic, epidemiologist, foodborne disease, MRSA, pandemic, Plague of Athens, prokaryote, superbug, zoonosis
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: OpenStax College (info@openstaxcollege.org)
Copyright Holders: Rice University (daniel@openstaxcollege.org)
Maintainers: OpenStax College (info@openstaxcollege.org), Cnx Biology (ryan.s.stickney@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.4 (history)
First publication date: Aug 23, 2012 2:22 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Apr 11, 2013 3:31 pm -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.4 Apr 11, 2013 3:31 pm -0500 by Cnx Biology
Changes: 
Deleted extraneous superscript, replaced "multiple choice" with "review questions"
Version: 1.3 Mar 14, 2013 1:18 pm -0500 by Cnx Biology
Changes: 
fixed summary
Version: 1.2 Feb 27, 2013 4:04 pm -0600 by Cnx Biology
Changes: 
migration spreadsheet changes
Version: 1.1 Aug 29, 2012 1:30 pm -0500 by Cnx Biology
Changes: 
Created module

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