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What types of microbes cause diphtheria?

bacteria


How did Edward Jenner find out about microbes?

he didn't, he found out about smallpox


Which microbes could cause infection?

There are several types of microbes that could cause infection and they may be acute chronic or latent infections. A microbe that could cause an acute infection is rhinovirus, one that could cause a chronic infection is hepatitis C and one that could cause a latent infection is herpes zoster.


How are microbes responsible for a particular disease?

There are thousands of different types of microbes. They are all microscopic but at the same time they are very much different from each other. So each can cause individual or no disease. In fact very few of them cause diseases.


What medicines fight microbes?

Microbes are tiny organisms that cannot be seen by the human eye. There are microbes that are good for you and microbes that are bad for you. Everyone has an immune system, which is a bodily function that defends your body from bad microbes. the immune system is not an organ but its in your bloodstream and most of your organs. In your immune system there are things called antibodies which kill bad microbes. When you have medicines and jabs, there are bad microbes inside the medicines/jabs. They always put in quite mild bad microbes though, so it doesn't make you ill but does prepare the antibodies so if they see the same kind of bad microbes again they will be able to kill them faster, giving you less chance of catching the disease.For example, in the smallpox jab they give you the smallpox that cows get (yes, cows can get smallpox too). But humans can't actually get ill from having small amounts of cow smallpox injected into them, because our antibodies can kill cow smallpox microbes easily. But when the antibodies kill the cow smallpox microbes, they remember them, so if you ever get human smallpox microbes inside you, the antibodies will remember how they killed the cow smallpox microbes and kill the smallpox microbes in the same way. Because they have already killed the same thing before, they will kill them quicker, giving you much less chance of the smallpox microbes getting through your immune system and giving you the disease.As humans are eukaryotes, our genome is extremely difficult to truly decode due to processes such as exon shuffling, the genetic "junk" and likely dozens of other observed aspects of our genome.Naturally, many people with genetic defects need a constant supply of medicines (diabetics will be used from here on out in this section). Creating insulin in a lab was very difficult before the onset of cDNA, which (long story made really really short) is placing the human insulin gene into yeast or another simple eukaryote. Thankfully, all eukaryotic cells "know" how to process our genome and human hormones can be made in vivo in laboratories in greater quantity than ever before.


Are bacteria microbes?

All bacteria are microbes, but not all microbes are bacteria. Viruses and fungi are the other two main types of microbes, or microorganisms.


What can microbes cause?

Microbial disease.


Why do microbes cause HIV?

Microbes don't cause HIV. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and the causative agent is a virus.


If smallpox has been eliminated worldwide then why do they continue to cause 10's of millions of deaths?

Smallpox does not cause any deaths. Other preventable diseases cause deaths.


Why was the smallpox vaccine needed?

for you're safety of not getting smallpox.


Do all microbes cause diseases?

Majority of the microbes do not cause the disease. The disease causing microbes also, probably, keeps your species healthy and your immune system tuned.


What final step should be taken to prove that these specific microbes cause the given disease?

Compare the original microbes with the microbes in the new culture.