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Ck 12: Biology: Autoimmune Diseases
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how autoimmune diseases affect the body.
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Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Communicable Diseases
This lesson focuses on communicable diseases that are caused by bacteria including Gonorrhea and Salmonella. Links to a video and a test are provided.
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Biology Guide: Pathogens and Disease
Students learn about pathogens and disease. Some topics explored in the tutorial are bacteria, parasites, gene technology, and non-communicable diseases.
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Khan Academy: Immunology of Acute vs. Chronic Inflammation
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz on the Immunology of Acute vs. Chronic Inflammation.
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Khan Academy: Immune System Questions
Multiple choice practice questions over the immune system.
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Khan Academy: Ebola: At a Glance
The Ebola disease is a life-threatening illness caused by the Ebola virus. There is currently no vaccine or specific medication for Ebola. Further discussion includes How does the virus replication work?; What are the symptoms of Ebola...
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Khan Academy: What Is Antibiotic Resistance?
Antibiotic resistance describes a bacteria's ability to survive while being exposed to antibiotics. Topics explored are the following: How does antibiotic resistance develop exactly?; How do we measure antibiotic resistance?; How...
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Khan Academy: Antibiotics: An Overview
An overview of antibiotics, including What are antibiotics?; How were antibiotics discovered?; How do antibiotics work?; Azithromycin; Antibiotic development?
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Khan Academy: Modeling an Epidemic
In this simulation, statistics of population parameters and infection parameters determine the spread of the epidemic.
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Khan Academy: Tb and Hiv
Two deadly diseases, HIV and TB, can often co-exist in the same patient. Treatment of these diseases is discussed as is the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (iris) and the paradoxical iris.
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Khan Academy: Drug Resistant Tb
Learn the different kinds of drug resistance and ways to treat that resistance. Discussion includes treating patients who have relapsed with the same infection or a new TB infection.
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Khan Academy: Treatment of Active Tb
A discussion of how to treat Active TB in order to prevent disability and death from the infection and to reduce the spread of the disease.
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Khan Academy: Preventing Tb Using "4 I's"
Learn how to help prevent tuberculosis by using the "4I's" model: Intensive Case Findings, Isoniazid, Isolation, and Immunization.
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Khan Academy: Preventing Tb Transmission
Preventing tuberculosis transmission includes the following: medication, isolation, surgical mask, distancing/spacing from other, air purifying respirator, and HEPA filter.
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Khan Academy: Diagnosing Active Tuberculosis
Discover how clinical clues including chest X-ray, TB skin test, and Sputum sample, can determine if someone has an active TB infection.
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Khan Academy: Interpreting the Ppd
Discover how the cut off for a "positive PPD" depends on clinical clues.
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Khan Academy: Pulmonary Tb
The effects of tuberculosis has on the lungs and the clinical signs associated with it. Also discussed is pleural tuberculosis.
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Khan Academy: Primary and Secondary Tb
Key features of primary TB and how it differs from secondary TB.
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Khan Academy: Pathogenesis
An explanation of how tuberculosis causes damage to lungs and other organs in the body. Latent and secondary tuberculosis is also examined. Of note is once infected with tuberculosis it's with you forever and may cause subsequent issues.
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Khan Academy: Mantoux Test (Aka. Ppd or Tst)
How the Mantoux test is administered and how it works when determining if a person has tuberculous.
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Khan Academy: Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Part Ii
The second of a two-part lesson about how tuberculosis can spread beyond the lungs effecting the bones, central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, and heart.
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Khan Academy: Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Part I
A two part lesson about how tuberculosis can spread beyond the lungs extending to the lymph nodes and the genital urinary tract.
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Khan Academy: What Is Tuberculosis?
An overview of tuberculosis (TB) or consumption which is an infectious disease caused by bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Examined are the affects of tuberculosis on the lungs, latent tuberculosis vs. active tuberculosis, symptoms,...