Month: April 2022

Authors Lauri Markowitz, Susan Hariri, and in joint collaboration with other researchers, collectively published journal article “Reduction in Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevalence Among Young Women Following HPV Vaccine Introduction in the United States, National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 2003-2010” (2013) detail that the HPV numbers in young women decreased after the introduction of the… Continue reading Writing Exercise #4

Behaviors that an individual could engage in that could cause changes to their gut microbial community include taking prebiotics, probiotics, fecal transplants, antibiotics, and using antimicrobials. Prebiotics are beneficial in terms of the growth of microbes in the system, fecal transplants are also beneficial to relocate communities of microbes from one person to the other.… Continue reading Writing Exercise #3

Based on the reading from Sarid and Gao, the HPV strain that should be covered in a new treatment

Human non-infectious diseases that I can think of that are influenced by microorganisms include Asthma, Diabetes, and some cancer types. Honestly, I cannot think of many non-infectious diseases that are associated with microbes. I find that I connect microbes more with infectious diseases such as Influenzas, Measles, and other illnesses that are cause by bacteria… Continue reading Writing Exercise #1