Essays on Antifungal

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS

Background: Clinical Description

The disease causing agent, Coccioides spp., causes a wide range of illness, but these illness are mostly determined by the hosts' defenses, inoculum size and possibly specific organism virulence. Most of the clinical infections (about 60%) show few or no respiratory symptoms. However, the rest 40% may show symptoms of illness that may either be acute or sub-acute. The illness could range from progressive pneumonia to flu-like conditions. Misdiagnosis usually occurs in self-limited community-acquired pneumonia. According to Saubolle, McKeller & Sussland (2007), only 29% of 56 people who had community-acquired pneumonia were diagnosed of coccidioidomycosis. The exact ...

Question 1: Food Security and Climatic Change

The right to food is an essential human right. To live healthily and have a productive life, human beings must have access to a reliable supply of food. This is food security. Climatic changes are the long term changes in the average weather conditions. Agriculture is crucial for food security because, it provides the food eaten by people, and a source of livelihood for about 36% of the total workforce in the world. The dependency on agriculture is slightly higher in Africa and Asia. If climatic change adversely affects agricultural production in these regions, the risk to food insecurity will be increased. ...