{"id":3,"date":"2022-09-30T19:55:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T19:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/?p=3"},"modified":"2022-09-30T19:55:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T19:55:05","slug":"writing-exercise-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/2022\/09\/30\/writing-exercise-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Exercise #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am writing this post as part of an assignment for one of my college courses: BHS 323 &#8211; Microbial Influences on Human Health. I have been tasked with listing as many non-infections diseases that are influenced by microorganisms as I can think of. Hopefully, I can think of a decent amount; I guess we will see as I go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cancers<ul><li>Cervical cancer, which can be caused by oncoviruses such as human papillomavirus (HPV).<\/li><li>Gastric cancer, which can be caused by lesions and subsequent neoplasms induced by the bacterium <em>H. pylori<\/em>.<\/li><li>Kaposi sarcoma, a type of rare skin cancer usually only found in individuals suffering from the late phase of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Tetanus, a disease caused by <em>C. tetani<\/em> which causes painful constitutive contraction of the muscles.<\/li><li>Botulism, a type of food poisoning caused by ingestion of botulinum toxin.<\/li><li>Many cases of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be caused by dysregulation of the gut microbiome.<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Listing these diseases (especially non-infectious ones) was much more difficult than I originally anticipated! In my time as an undergraduate student studying biomedical topics, I feel as though the focus on microbial life has been when talking about infectious diseases. I&#8217;ve seldom learned about the ways in which microbial life interacts with our species in non-infectious disease states. I am very excited to learn more about this topic throughout the term! Hopefully I will be able to construct a longer and more comprehensive list by December \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this post as part of an assignment for one of my college courses: BHS 323 &#8211; Microbial Influences on Human Health. I have been tasked with listing as many non-infections diseases that are influenced by microorganisms as I can think of. Hopefully, I can think of a decent amount; I guess we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/samsmicrobialthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}