Guest guest Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Jill Just step away from this literature and don't let it rule what your suffering and what yuou need to do.The whole of medicine is smoke and mirrors and sure there's consequences to having cancer/aids and fungus's and other opppurtunistic bacteria BUT!!!!!Every forum has the doctors staring at the patient in amazement. They don't have the slightest idea on the easist stuff, so you get all this complex stuff being brought forward as a possable answer to there ills..I'm talking about everything that occurs in general medical practise--- NO-one in medicine understands that if you have inflammation somewhere you turn up looking for answers.It's such a crap shoot this whole inflammation ilness that you just have to keep it simple nothing has proven to be complex in my reading.s... > > This classification conveys important information about the > biochemistry and metabolism of disease-causing organisms. Here are > three examples. 1) Pneumocystis, an opportunistic pathogen causing > mortality in AIDS patients and immunocompromised individuals, is now > known to be a fungus, indicating a different treatment regimen is > needed. 2) Phytophtora, an organism causing potato blight, such as > the one that caused the Irish famine in the 19th century, is now > known not to be a fungus, which explains why fungicides are not > effective treatments. 3) Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria, > is now known to share ancestry with photosynthetic organisms and has > a vestigial chloroplast, called the apicoplast. This knowledge opens > exciting possibilities for novel drug therapies. > The new classification recognizes 6 major clusters of organisms, > rather than the 4 traditional Kingdoms. These clusters are 1) the > Opisthokonta, grouping the animals, fungi, choanoflagellates, and > Mesomycetozoa; 2) the Amoebozoa, grouping most traditional amoebae, > slime moulds, many testate amoebae, some amoebo-flagellates, and > several species without mitochondria; 3) the Excavata, grouping > oxymonads, parabasalids, diplomonads, jakobids, and several other > genera of heterotrophic flagellates, and possibly including the > Euglenozoa and Heterolobosea; 4) the Rhizaria, grouping the > Foraminifera, most of the traditional Radiolaria, and the Cercozoa > with filose pseudopodia, such as many amoebo-flagellates and some > testate amoebae; 5) the Archaeplastida, grouping the Glaucophyta, red > algae, green algae, and Plantae; 6) the Chromalveolata, grouping the > Alveolata (including ciliates, the dinoflagellates, and the > Apicomplexa), cryptophytes, haptophytes, and stramenopiles (including > brown algae, the diatoms, many zoosporic fungi, opalinids, amongst > others). > > Finally, the authors noted that they " adopted a hierarchical system > without formal rank designations, such as " class, " " sub- > class, " " super-order " or " order, " The decision to do so has been > primarily motivated by utility, to avoid the common problem of a > single change causing a cascade of changes to the system. We believe > this to be more utilitarian, and less problematic than traditional > conventions, as it is not constrained by formally attributing a > limited number of rank names. " > --- > > It's sort of amusign they say, " so it's not a fungus that's why > fungidicides didn't work! " LOL. BUt not so LOL when its a human > infection. BTW, I find the apicoplast really fascinating as I said. I > really want to do a story on it but I " m not sure where to place it. I > really should query around. I feel overwhelmed right now tho. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 I've got an envelope ready to send out today. I put tons of stamps on it so it'll get there hopefully first class. > > > > This classification conveys important information about the > > biochemistry and metabolism of disease-causing organisms. Here are > > three examples. 1) Pneumocystis, an opportunistic pathogen causing > > mortality in AIDS patients and immunocompromised individuals, is > now > > known to be a fungus, indicating a different treatment regimen is > > needed. 2) Phytophtora, an organism causing potato blight, such as > > the one that caused the Irish famine in the 19th century, is now > > known not to be a fungus, which explains why fungicides are not > > effective treatments. 3) Plasmodium, the causative agent of > malaria, > > is now known to share ancestry with photosynthetic organisms and > has > > a vestigial chloroplast, called the apicoplast. This knowledge > opens > > exciting possibilities for novel drug therapies. > > The new classification recognizes 6 major clusters of organisms, > > rather than the 4 traditional Kingdoms. These clusters are 1) the > > Opisthokonta, grouping the animals, fungi, choanoflagellates, and > > Mesomycetozoa; 2) the Amoebozoa, grouping most traditional > amoebae, > > slime moulds, many testate amoebae, some amoebo-flagellates, and > > several species without mitochondria; 3) the Excavata, grouping > > oxymonads, parabasalids, diplomonads, jakobids, and several other > > genera of heterotrophic flagellates, and possibly including the > > Euglenozoa and Heterolobosea; 4) the Rhizaria, grouping the > > Foraminifera, most of the traditional Radiolaria, and the Cercozoa > > with filose pseudopodia, such as many amoebo-flagellates and some > > testate amoebae; 5) the Archaeplastida, grouping the Glaucophyta, > red > > algae, green algae, and Plantae; 6) the Chromalveolata, grouping > the > > Alveolata (including ciliates, the dinoflagellates, and the > > Apicomplexa), cryptophytes, haptophytes, and stramenopiles > (including > > brown algae, the diatoms, many zoosporic fungi, opalinids, amongst > > others). > > > > Finally, the authors noted that they " adopted a hierarchical > system > > without formal rank designations, such as " class, " " sub- > > class, " " super-order " or " order, " The decision to do so has been > > primarily motivated by utility, to avoid the common problem of a > > single change causing a cascade of changes to the system. We > believe > > this to be more utilitarian, and less problematic than traditional > > conventions, as it is not constrained by formally attributing a > > limited number of rank names. " > > --- > > > > It's sort of amusign they say, " so it's not a fungus that's why > > fungidicides didn't work! " LOL. BUt not so LOL when its a human > > infection. BTW, I find the apicoplast really fascinating as I > said. I > > really want to do a story on it but I " m not sure where to place > it. I > > really should query around. I feel overwhelmed right now tho. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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