Biology Help ?

[urbanangler1990]

hey guys, im doing a bio project on a virues, specifically rocky mounted spotted fever and i cant find any info of the ecological role of this virus. What the benficial functions in the ecosystem and symbiotic relationships. do any of u know a website, or off the top of ur head info on this? need info by 6 lol... any help greatly appreciated...

Edited December 14, 2006 by urbanangler1990

[wishn4fishn]

googling helps i just tried, try searching for rocky mountain spotted fever.

Good luck on getting it done, slacker.

The countdown..........

Edited December 14, 2006 by W15h1N 1 WuZ F15H1N

[tonyb]

lol

 

Tony

[urbanangler1990]

googling helps i just tried, try searching for rocky mountain spotted fever.

Good luck on getting it done, slacker.

The countdown..........

 

thats what ive been doing, but i cant find anywhere it talks about ecosystem impact... hey at least im getting my work done and getting em marks...

[troutologist]

Your school library should subcribe to online journals like Journal of Wildlife Disease. Do a search on there. Or look up the general ecological info on viruses it will be similar for the classes of viruses

[Nemo]

Google is your friend....

 

enter: ecosystem impact rocky mountain spotted fever

[lunkerbasshunter]

pay the smart kid to do it for you!

[urbanangler1990]

trust me ive been trying for 2 hours now, googled everything possible but it still doesnt give me what i need, i need something that specifically deals with my topic from above... o well

[FishFinder]

SLACKER.. LOL

try finding a homework forum and ask there...

[Rich]

Read through this, there is a tiny bit of info. Not much but a start.

 

http://www.oism.org/ddp/ddpnews/ddpnov91.html

[setomonkey]

ua1990,

 

I think it's too late for your homework but I've been finding that Google will only take you so far. Try one of the meta-search engines, which will get the results from Google, Yahoo, etc.

 

e.g., Metacrawler or Dogpile.

 

Mike

[bigfish1965]

You really need to narrow the parameters down. Ecosystem means the entire planet. Which ecosystem do you refer to? How does it impact Ontario's ecosystems? Not much.

[BabyHerc]

Have you tried wikipedia?

[kemper]

Have you tried wikipedia?

 

 

Never trust wikipedia!

 

Have you tried a school based site like bigchalk?

[Marc Thorpe]

http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Rock...n+spotted+fever

 

Rocky Mountain spotted fever, infectious disease caused by a rickettsia rickettsia (rĭkĕt`sēə), any of a group of very small microorganisms, many disease-causing, that live in vertebrates and are transmitted by bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas , lice (see louse ), and ticks.

..... Click the link for more information. . The germ is harbored by wild rodents and other animals and is carried by infected ticks that attach themselves to humans. Despite its name, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is most prevalent in the S United States from Virgina, the Carolinas, and Georgia W to Oklahoma; it may be encountered in other tick-infested regions. Symptoms include chills and high fever; a rose-colored skin rash that appears first on the wrists and ankles and spreads to the trunk, the spots turning deep red and running together; headache; and pains in the back, muscles, and joints. In severe cases there may be delirium or coma. Spotted fever is a serious disease; however, it is not usually fatal if prompt antibiotic treatment is administered. Immunization with vaccine is effective.

 

rickettsia (rĭkĕt`sēə), any of a group of very small microorganisms, many disease-causing, that live in vertebrates and are transmitted by bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas flea, common name for any of the small, wingless insects of the order Siphonaptera. The adults of both sexes eat only blood and are all external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas have hard bodies flattened from side to side and piercing and sucking mouthparts. Their legs are

..... Click the link for more information. , lice (see louse louse, common name for members of either of two distinct orders of wingless, parasitic, disease-carrying insects . Lice of both groups are small and flattened with short legs adapted for clinging to the host.

 

The sucking lice, of the order Anoplura, are external parasites of humans and other mammals, feeding on blood by means of their piercing-and-sucking mouthparts.

..... Click the link for more information. ), and ticks. Rickettsias are named after their discoverer, the American pathologist Harold Taylor Ricketts, who died of typhus typhus, any of a group of infectious diseases caused by microorganisms classified between bacteria and viruses, known as rickettsias. Typhus diseases are characterized by high fever and an early onset of rash and headache. They respond to antibiotic treatment with tetracycline and chloramphenicol and can be prevented by vaccination.

..... Click the link for more information. in Mexico after confirming the infectious agent of that rickettsial disease. Rickettsias are gram-negative, coccoid-shaped or rod-shaped bacteria; unlike other bacteria, but like viruses, they require a living host (a living cell) to survive. Rickettsias from infected vertebrates, usually mammals, live and multiply in the gastrointestinal tract of an arthropod carrier but do not cause disease there; they are transmitted to another vertebrate, possibly one of another species, by the arthropod's mouthparts or feces.

Types of Rickettsial Diseases

 

Rickettsia prowazekii causes louse-borne typhus, carried from person to person by two species of lice. Flea, or murine, typhus, caused by R. mooseri, is transmitted from rodents to people by fleas. Trench fever, caused by R. quintana, was an epidemic disease in World War I; it is transmitted by the rat flea from rat to person or from person to person. Trench fever disease reservoirs (perpetuation of the disease in wild animal populations) exist in some parts of E Europe, Mexico, and N Africa. Various typhuslike rickettsial diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever Rocky Mountain spotted fever, infectious disease caused by a rickettsia . The germ is harbored by wild rodents and other animals and is carried by infected ticks that attach themselves to humans. Despite its name, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is most prevalent in the S United States from Virgina, the Carolinas, and Georgia W to Oklahoma; it may be encountered in other tick-infested regions.

..... Click the link for more information. and African tick typhus, are transmitted by ticks from animal hosts to people. Mite-borne rickettsial infections include rickettsialpox, caused by Rickettsia akari and transmitted from house mice to people, and scrub typhus, or tsutsugamushi fever, caused by R. tsutsugamushi and found in Japan and SE Asia. Q fever, caused by Coxiella burnetii, a more hardy rickettsia viable outside the living host, is usually transmitted to humans by inhalation of contaminated airborne particles or from contaminated materials, often from infected livestock; it is an occupational hazard among dairy farm and slaughterhouse workers. A new rickettsia, Ehrlichia chaffeenis, which results in human ehrlichiosis ehrlichiosis (ârlĭkēō`sĭs), any of several diseases caused by rickettsia of the genus Ehrlichia. Ehrlichiosis is transmitted by ticks.

..... Click the link for more information. , was identified in 1986.

Symptoms and Treatment

 

The similar symptoms of rickettsial infections often make it difficult to distinguish one disease from another. In people the organisms grow in cells lining blood and lymph vessels; a rash, fever, and flulike symptoms are usually present. Q fever also causes lung damage. All rickettsial diseases respond to treatment with antibiotics such as doxycycline (a tetracycline tetracycline (tĕ'trəsī`klēn), any of a group of antibiotics produced by bacteria of the genus Streptomyces. They are effective against a wide range of Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria, interfering with protein synthesis in these microorganisms (see Gram's stain ).

..... Click the link for more information. ) and chloramphenicol chloramphenicol (klōr'ămfĕn`əkŏl'), antibiotic effective against a wide range of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria (see Gram's stain ).

..... Click the link for more information. .

 

 

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rmsf/overview.htm

 

http://www.lyme.org/otherdis/rmsf.html

 

http://www.answers.com/topic/rocky-mountain-spotted-fever

 

http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic510.htm

 

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:DKOIQ...t=clnk&cd=5

 

http://www.avma.org/reference/zoonosis/znrockymountain.asp

 

have fun

 

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[ccmtcanada]

LOL...what happened to going to a library and reading? Oh wait...do they even still have libraries?? What about encyclopedias....I mean the book kind....hmm....I must be getting old