Cancer :- It is uncontrolled division of cell without any differentiation. It is not a single disease rather a group of disease. Some types of cancer cause rapid cell growth, while others cause cells to grow and divide at slower rate. Certain forms of the disease result in visible growth called tumour, while others such…
AIDS :- AIDS ( Acquired human Immune Deficiency Syndrome ) is pandemic disease, first recognised in USA ( 1981 ), believed to occured in Africa. First confirmed evidence of AIDS in India April 1986 ( 6 prostitutes from Tamilnadu were found HIV positive ). Causative agent :- HIV ( Human Immunodeficiency Virus ), it is…
Communicable diseases :- Communicable diseases are diseases that can transfer from one person to another and caused by microbes like bacteria, protozoa, fungi, viruses, helminthes etc. Communicable diseases caused by bacteria :- Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Whooping cough ( Pertussis ), Cholera, Other diarrheal disease, Leprosy, Tetanus, Gonorrhea, Syphilis etc. Communicable diseases caused by Viruses :- Mumps,…
Microbes in Human Welfare :- Microbes are the major components of biological Systems on this earth . Microbes like bacteria and many fungi can be grown on nutritive media to form colonies , that can be seen with the naked eyes . Such culture are useful in studies on micro-organisms . Microbes causes disease in…
