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Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter 21, 22, 23
• Weekly Concepts

Initial Post Instructions

For this discussion, take on the role of one of the pathogens we learned about. Give us a narrative about what you are doing in the body from the pathogen’s point of view. How did you get into the body? In other words, how did the body inherit you. How do you move through the body? What path of destruction are you on? How will you wage battle against the body? How do you plan to win that battle? What will the body try to do to stop you? How will you fight back? Who wins?

Follow-Up Post Instructions

Respond to at least one peer or the instructor. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification.

Writing Requirements

• Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
• Minimum of 2 sources cited (assigned readings/online lessons and an outside source)
• APA format for in-text citations and list of references

Student Sample:

Professor & Class,

Hello, my name is Mr. Streptococcal and I am a bacterial pathogen. I can be harmful and in some ways deadly! I have multiple personalities and have many names. Some versions of my personality are almost murderous like when I become part of a B-haemolytic Streptococci in rare cases I can infect the blood and organs of a human which can result in pneumonia, bacteraemia, and necrotising fasciitis or better known as flesh-eating disease!!! Mu-ah-ah-ah. Even-though I live naturally in humans causing no symptoms I can still be transmitted to start causing some issues! I can be transmitted through coughs, sneezes, or direct contact. Like I said earlier my multiple personalities allow me to move through the body easily and morph into many different areas of the body like the blood and certain organs. When I am inside a humans nose, throat, and sometimes skin I mind my own business, however, when I move about elsewhere I love to cause some damage… I mean, i’m already here why not, right? According to some human research from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals Sciences (2017), they “recently made a surprising discovery that strep’s M protein alone wipes out macrophages, but not other types of immune cells in which the macrophages’ self-sacrifice ultimately serves as an early warning of infection to the rest of the immune system”. Once I obliterate the humans macrophages I take on the bodies white blood cells head on. I can win this fight typically if i’m dealing with high risk humans like babies under six months old, adults over 75, and those with weak immune systems. However, my cause for total domination is taken away from me when humans take some pharmaceutical chemicals that kill me.

The fight is not over. Ill be reincarnated (hopefully) one day, and start my fight again! Maybe ill morph into your cat that wont stop meowing… the world may never know.

I have posted a photo of me below, check it out! 🙂

References:

The Public Engagement team at the Wellcome Genome Campus. (2021). What are STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS? Facts. https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-are-streptococcal-infections.

Gonzalez, C. (2021). Microbiology [Chapter 21,22,23 powerpoint slides]. Chamberlain University

Single strep bacteria protein sets off white blood cell’s early warning system. UC Health – UC San Diego. (2017). https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/pages/2017-08-07-single-strep-bacteria-protein-sets-off-white-blood-cell-early-warning-system.aspx.