What is the Causative Organism of Ebola?
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Cause details for Ebola: The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa, where it was first recognized. The virus is one of two members of a family of RNA viruses called the Filoviridae. Three of the four species of Ebola virus identified so far have caused disease in humans: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, and Ebola-Ivory Coast. The fourth, Ebola-Reston, has caused disease in nonhuman primates, but not in humans.
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Per Wikipedia: "The spirochaetes (or spirochetes) are a phylum of distinctive bacteria, which have long, helically coiled cells. They are distinguished by the presence of flagella running lengthwise between the cell membrane and cell wall, called axial filaments. These cause a twisting motion which allows the spirochaete to move about. Most spirochaetes are free-living and anaerobic, but there are numerous exceptions."
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Typhoid.  Caused by a bug.\nChild Birth.  Caused by men.\nMental Disorder.  Caused by children.
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disease that can be transmitted globally
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yes it is still around, however it is quite rare. what the ebola virus does to you is the virus activates and releases its own genetic material which causes the host to begin to make its own proteins for virus replication. This replication continues until the cell ruptures and bursts. The virus is then spread to neighboring cells, and continues to reproduce. Basically your body begins to waste away internally. \nSymptoms include vomiting, diarrhea,changing of skin color, general body pain, internal and external bleeding, and fever
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Syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia are all three caused by bacterium.  Syphilis is not viral as mentioned above.\n\nHIV (AIDS), HPV (Genital warts), HSV-1/HSV-2 (Herpes) are viral as well as some others.
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pneumonia with pulmonary abcess.\npseudomonas, staph, or klebsiella are most likely organisms
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Both of those answers are wrong.\nBubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersina pestis. All forms of the plague are caused by Y. pestis. \n\nYersina is also not sensitive to penicillin. Why is it when people get an infection they assume that penicillin will work against it? Penicillin is almost completely useless now because of bacterial resistance. Anyway, for plague, you will be given either Streptomycin, Chloramphenicol, Tetracycline, Gentamycin or Doxycyclin.\n\nHope that straighten things out.
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Legionella (actually aerosolized in water droplets), Yersinia pestis (pneumonic plague), Bacillus antracis (inhalation anthrax)\n\nAnd SARS is actually VIRAL (coronavirus), not bacterial.
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This is a great source for you:\nhttp://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ogunseitan/student.asp\nEnjoy the microbes!\n;-D
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Epididymitis is caused by spread of infection from the urethra or the bladder. The most common organisms involved in the condition in young heterosexual men are gonorrhoea and chlamydia. In children and older men, typical uropathogens, such as coliform oraganisms (E. coli), are much more common. This is also true in the case of homosexual men. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) can manifest also as epididymitis. "Beadlike" irregularities along vas deferens are the characteristic sign of this condition. Other bacteria (such as Ureaplasma) may also cause epididymitis. A non-infectious cause of epididymitis is the use of anti-arrhythmic medication, amiodarone. In this case, the inflammation is limited to the head of the epididymis and does not respond to anti-microbial therapy. The treatment is dosage reduction or change of medications. An increased risk is associated with sexually-active men who are not monogamous and do not use condoms. Men who have recently had surgery or have a history of structural problems involving the genito-urinary tract are also at increased risk (regardless of sexual behaviors). Other risk factors include chronic indwelling urethral catheter use and being uncircumcised.
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Typhoid fever (a.k.a. Enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi. Very common worldwide, it is transmitted by ingestion of food or water contaminated with feces from an infected person. The bacteria then multiply in the blood stream of the infected person and are absorbed into the digestive tract and eliminated with the waste.
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http://www.api-pt.com/pdfs/2005Amicro.pdf\nhttp://www.life.umd.edu/classroom/bsci424/PathogenDescriptions/Enterobacteriaceae.htm\nhttp://www.indstate.edu/thcme/micro/pdf/chapter13.pdf\nhttp://www.austincc.edu/microbugz/images/03pvulgaris.jpg
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No!  It is caused by bacteria.
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sex with monkeys\n\nLegend, based on the fact that some monkeys carry a similar virus, but it is not the same virus, so that can't be the source.
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The virus comes from the Filoviridae family, of which Marburg virus is also a member. The true vector, an animal or plant that can carry the virus without experiencing symptoms of infection, is not currently known. The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), near the first epidemics.\n\nIt is traditional to name viral species (strains, subtypes) after the locations where they were first discovered. Two species were identified in 1976: Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) and Sudan ebolavirus (SEBOV) with case fatality rates of 83% and 54% respectively. A third species, Reston ebolavirus (REBOV), was discovered in November 1989 in a group of monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) imported from the Philippines to the Hazleton Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia (USA).\n\nFurther outbreaks have occurred in Zaire/Democratic Republic of the Congo (1995 and 2003), Gabon (1994, 1995 and 1996), Uganda (2000), Angola (2005) and Sudan again (2004). A new species was identified from a single human case in Côte d'Ivoire in 1994, Ivory Coast ebolavirus (ICEBOV). In 2003, 120 people died in Etoumbi, Republic of Congo, which has been the site of four recent outbreaks, including one in May 2005.\n\nOf the approximate 1,500 identified Ebola cases worldwide, over 80% of the patients have died. Despite considerable effort by the World Health Organization, no animal or arthropod reservoir capable of sustaining the virus between outbreaks has been identified, although a role for fruit or insectivorous bats is often postulated. BBC News reported that researchers writing in the December 1, 2005, issue of Nature had identified evidence of symptomless Ebola infection in three species of fruit bats from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon.\n\n[edit]\nBlack Death?\nTher are a group of Scientists who believe that the English Black Death was in fact a large Epedemic of Ebola. This remains to be confirmed.\n\n[edit]\nZaire ebolavirus\nZaire ebolavirus, is a non-segmented, negative stranded virus and is one of the first-discovered Ebola virus species. It is also the most deadly with up to a 90% mortality rate in some epidemics. There have been more outbreaks of Zaire ebolavirus than any other strain. The first outbreak took place on August 26, 1976 in Yambuku, a town in northern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The first recorded case (not the index case) was a Mabalo Lokela, a 44 year old school teacher just returning from a trip around Northern Zaire, who was examined at a hospital run by Belgian nuns. His high fever was diagnosed as possible malaria, therefore he was given a quinine shot. Lokela returned to the hospital every day. A week later, his symptoms included uncontrolled vomiting, severe diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and trouble breathing. Later, the bleeding began from his nose, mouth, and rectum. Mabalo Lokela died on September 8, 1976, roughly 14 days after the onset of symptoms.\n\nSoon after, more patients arrived with varying but similar symptoms: fever, headache, muscle/joint aches, fatigue, nausea, dizziness etc. which often progressed to bloody diarrhea, severe vomiting, and bleeding from the nose, mouth, and rectum. The initial transmission was believed to be due to reuse of the needle for Lokelas's injection without sterilization (a common practice in many countries). Subsequent transmission was also due to care of the sick patients without barrier nursing and traditional burial preparations, which involves washing and GI tract cleansing.\n\nA similar case of hospital transmission occurred in southern Sudan, after the death of a nightclub owner in Nzara who could afford to go to the fancier hospital located in Maridi. Unfortunately, the nurses there also did not properly sterilize their needles, and the hospital, like the one in Yambuku, became a breeding ground for new Ebola cases (Draper 30–31). Several epidemics of Zaire ebolavirus and Sudan ebolavir
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A transgenic organism is one whose genome has been subject to artificial modification. A transgenic organism may result when foreign DNA is inserted into the nucleus of a fertilized embryo. Bacterial transformation is another example of a process that leads to a transgenic organism.\n\nScientists are always doing this to gain knowledge.