From ecoronap from stanford.edu Fri Oct 3 14:15:04 2008 From: ecoronap from stanford.edu (Erik Corona) Date: Fri Oct 3 19:54:46 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] Re: questions about a virus In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, It's the simple questions that are the good ones. I don't know the answer but I am very interested in finding out. It's my understanding that all the drugs we have to combat viruses merely slow the spread of the virus down which lets the rate at which our immune system hunts the virus down outpace the rate at which it spreads. I think the closest we can get to a "cure" is having a drug that will slow down the spread of the virus to a crawl. Another approach is to target proteins produced solely by the virus leaving your bodies endogenic proteins untouched. If the proteins are critical for the virus to spread, you have a cure. There are drugs that do this but I'm not aware of any that work so well as to rid the body completely of any virus without the use of your host immune system, which probably doesn't count as a cure. I'd be shocked to hear that we can cure a virus without the help of our own immune system (and I'm not sure that counts strictly as a cure). -Erik ecoronap@stanford.edu I'm not aware of drugs that On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Lin Andis wrote: > I am confused maybe you can help me sort it out. > > > > Has medical science ever found a "cure" for a virus? Any virus? I know we > have vaccines for them at least I think we do isn't polio and smallpox a > virus. What about chicken-pox and measles and all those childhood diseases > that we get only once? We are "vaccinated" by getting the virus and > creating our own antibodies (like the article said). Right? And does all of > this mean that we will probably not find a "cure" but rather a "vaccine" for > Aids? > > > I hope I haven't ask too many questions, and hope I am email the right > person, thanks in advance for they help if you aren't the person that I am > looking for; maybe you could put me in touch with someone that could answer > my questions. > > Inquiringly, Lin > linasmuch@gmail.com > > I found your email on this website > http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/biomail/listinfo/microbio > From askintekin from windowslive.com Thu Oct 9 11:15:23 2008 From: askintekin from windowslive.com (=?windows-1254?Q?a=FEk=FDn_tekin?=) Date: Thu Oct 9 13:16:50 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] microbiology books Message-ID: hello freinds i am looking for a most current and popular supplemantary book about microbiology which will help me for my educatýon _________________________________________________________________ Yeni nesil Windows Live Services'ý ücretsiz edinin. http://get.live.comFrom luis.rivera from medtronic.com Fri Oct 10 16:08:25 2008 From: luis.rivera from medtronic.com (Rivera Morales, Luis [JR]) Date: Fri Oct 10 18:16:37 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] Question on a MacFarland Standards Message-ID: <9F82BC69AA842B4B870C40672B158A4415C1C6@SJUM1BMSGM31.ent.core.medtronic.com> Hi, Mr. Friedel I saw you e-mail on the internet when I was searching for how to create microorganism supension with a know population? I know that some people use MacFarland Standard, but We don't have MacFarland Standard, we have Densichek colorimeter by biomeriuex. Please, would you tell me how can I prepare those kinds of microbial suspension given a know concentration (for example, 10e6, 10e7 or 10e8). Thank you very much, Luis Rivera Morales Associate Microbiologist/Sterilization MPROC-Juncos Phone: 787-561-2840 Fax: 787-561-2413 [CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY NOTICE] Information transmitted by this email is proprietary to Medtronic and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is private, privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. In such cases, please delete this mail from your records. To view this notice in other languages you can either select the following link or manually copy and paste the link into the address bar of a web browser: http://emaildisclaimer.medtronic.com From yjgent from nospamcox.net Fri Oct 10 20:38:26 2008 From: yjgent from nospamcox.net (John Gentile) Date: Fri Oct 10 20:55:04 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] Re: Question on a MacFarland Standards References: Message-ID: <2008101021382616807-yjgent@nospamcoxnet> On 2008-10-10 17:08:25 -0400, "Rivera Morales, Luis [JR]" said: > Hi, Mr. Friedel > > I saw you e-mail on the internet when I was searching for how to create > microorganism supension with a know population? I know that some people > use MacFarland Standard, but We don't have MacFarland Standard, we have > Densichek colorimeter by biomeriuex. Please, would you tell me how can > I prepare those kinds of microbial suspension given a know concentration > (for example, 10e6, 10e7 or 10e8). > > Thank you very much, > > Luis Rivera Morales > Associate Microbiologist/Sterilization > MPROC-Juncos > Phone: 787-561-2840 > Fax: 787-561-2413 > Luis, The bioMeriuex colorimeter usually comes with 4 tubes with McFarland Standards 0.5, 1, 2, 3 and 4. These are made with latex particles and are very stable.The colorimeter should have colored sections on it relating to the 4 standards. You can also make your own standards using a formula with Barium Chloride and H2S04. A Google search found several sites that had the recipie, and Wikepedia even has a chart of each standard up to 4 with approximate bacterial concentratioin and nephelometer transmittance and absorbance for each one. I tried to copy it into this message but it did not format correctly. --. John Gentile Newsletter editor Rhode Island Apple Group -- John Gentile MS, M(ASCP) Laboratory Information Mgr. VA Medical Center Providence, RI yjgent@cox.net From bactitech from nospamhortonsbay.com Fri Oct 10 23:50:28 2008 From: bactitech from nospamhortonsbay.com (JEDilworth) Date: Sat Oct 11 12:17:43 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] Re: Question on a MacFarland Standards References: Message-ID: I went to Vitek2 training at bioMerieux in 2007. We were told in our training that the Densicheck is not a true McFarland standard, so you cannot substitute it for a McFarland. I believe we buy our McFarland's commercially. They have about a year outdate. Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP) Microbiology "Rivera Morales, Luis [JR]" wrote in message news:mailman.324.1223680596.29717.microbio@net.bio.net... > > I saw you e-mail on the internet when I was searching for how to > create > microorganism supension with a know population? I know that some > people > use MacFarland Standard, but We don't have MacFarland Standard, we > have > Densichek colorimeter by biomeriuex. From scientifica from bellsouth.net Sat Oct 11 17:35:47 2008 From: scientifica from bellsouth.net (scientifica,inc.) Date: Sun Oct 12 12:12:46 2008 Subject: FW: [Microbiology] Re: Question on a MacFarland Standards Message-ID: <000601c92bf1$b52e4170$6401a8c0@mainscien> -----Original Message----- From: scientifica,inc. [mailto:scientifica@bellsouth.net] Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:35 PM To: 'JEDilworth' Subject: RE: [Microbiology] Re: Question on a MacFarland Standards Hola,,hi We do have one www.scientificainc.com regards, Lorraine MacFarland Standards -----Original Message----- From: microbio-bounces@oat.bio.indiana.edu [mailto:microbio-bounces@oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of JEDilworth Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:50 AM To: microbio@magpie.bio.indiana.edu Subject: [Microbiology] Re: Question on a MacFarland Standards I went to Vitek2 training at bioMerieux in 2007. We were told in our training that the Densicheck is not a true McFarland standard, so you cannot substitute it for a McFarland. I believe we buy our McFarland's commercially. They have about a year outdate. Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP) Microbiology "Rivera Morales, Luis [JR]" wrote in message news:mailman.324.1223680596.29717.microbio@net.bio.net... > > I saw you e-mail on the internet when I was searching for how to > create > microorganism supension with a know population? I know that some > people > use MacFarland Standard, but We don't have MacFarland Standard, we > have > Densichek colorimeter by biomeriuex. _______________________________________________ Microbio mailing list Microbio@net.bio.net http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/microbio From pavani_micro_olive from yahoo.com Tue Oct 14 00:15:39 2008 From: pavani_micro_olive from yahoo.com (pavani) Date: Tue Oct 14 11:25:47 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] Request regarding few topics Message-ID: <5d190463-f7f3-47ab-bea5-9cf34639ed4f@c22g2000prc.googlegroups.com> Good morning every one, Any one kindly tell me reference books / where i can some notes for following topics, >>Single neuron recording, >>patch clamp recording , >>PET, MRI SCAN , fMRI , CAT. >> Radio labelling techniques.. >>Bio sensors >>bio & phyto remediation >>Brain behaviour & evolution IF ANY ONE FAMILIAR WITH FEW OF THESE TOPICS U CAN TELL ME EVEN ABOUT THEM ....PLZZZ....HELP ...ME I was new to these topics..i can't find the authors for these topics.... plz ..plz...kindly provide me information... if u hav any papers regarding this plz ..plz..kindly send me..... thanks for reading this......thank u.. From aksnow from uga.edu Fri Oct 17 15:47:05 2008 From: aksnow from uga.edu (Angela K. Snow) Date: Fri Oct 17 21:29:50 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] microbiology books Message-ID: <20081017164705.ONG06698@punts2.cc.uga.edu> "Brock Biology of Microorganisms" is the microbiology book that I have for general reference, and it is the one that I most commonly hear people recommend as a microbiology textbook. I believe that the most recent edition is Brock Biology of Microorganisms Edition 12 by Michael Madigan, John Martinko, and Paul Dunlap. There also seems to be a free web version of the 8th edition of "Brock Biology of Microorganisms," but I have never used it myself, so I cannot vouch for it myself. http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/brock/ ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:15:23 +0300 >From: a?k?n tekin >Subject: [Microbiology] microbiology books >To: > > > >hello freinds i am looking for a most current and popular supplemantary book about microbiology which will help me for my educat?on From ruthsiele from yahoo.com Sat Oct 18 10:54:12 2008 From: ruthsiele from yahoo.com (RUTH SIELE) Date: Sat Oct 18 15:20:17 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] Counting bacteria Message-ID: <191166.43774.qm@web45205.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Hi all, Thanks in advance for your help. I have bacteria and a membrane My objective is to analyze the deposition of the bacteria on the membrane with time. To do this, - I have prepared 0.1 OD (600) bacterial solution ???????????????- I run the solution through the membrane in a flow cell under flourescent ???????????????? microscope ?????????????? - I took pictures of the deposited bacteria in every 15 minutes using 40x ???????????????? objective lens. *Now, i want to Aanlyze the number of bacteria deposited on the membrane with time. * Thus, instead of counting all the deposited bacteria one by one, I am looking for any? ?? othere means which can help me get the number of deposited bacteria per unit area of? ?? the membrane? I was using the 40x lens. Thanks so much again for your help, looking forward to hearing from you ? Sincerly yours, ? Ruth __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From nospam from nospam.nl Sun Oct 26 17:33:37 2008 From: nospam from nospam.nl (morgana) Date: Mon Oct 27 16:29:46 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] relative distance Message-ID: I would like to know what is the the relative distance from the nucleus to the cellmembran on a human scale. Is that distance like my body to the moon or is this far less? From limbic_lesion from hotmail.com Mon Oct 27 15:45:01 2008 From: limbic_lesion from hotmail.com (N10) Date: Mon Oct 27 16:30:08 2008 Subject: [Microbiology] Re: relative distance References: Message-ID: <66mdnfDBTejJtZvUnZ2dnUVZ8oidnZ2d@bt.com> "morgana" wrote in message news:e61e2$4904f0ad$4dfa93ef$10247@news.chello.nl... >I would like to know what is the the relative distance from the nucleus to >the cellmembran > on a human scale. Is that distance like my body > to the moon or is this far less? Most human cells are around 20 micron in diameter with a nuclesus of about 10 micron ; so I guess the average interval must be about 10 micron. Bear in mind the nucleus is not always central so smaller and larger intervals will occur. This link should help you with the relative size of physical and biological objects www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/reference/size.html Do well ; I like your name :) N10