4-page minimum (not counting title page or references, APA style)
I. Cover page: Centered on the page: (4 points)
1. Microorganism name (from list below, number selected in class)
2. Biology 225-Section
3. Your name
4. Date
II. Description of the pathogenic microorganism (16 points)
1. Morphological characteristics (see specifics on next page)
2. Type of metabolism (see specifics)
3. Environmental conditions required for growth (see specifics)
4. Pathogenic mechanisms (how do they cause disease: biological mechanisms)
III. Description of the disease (18 points)
1. Brief history
2. Clinical symptoms/virulence factors/progression of the disease state
3. Diagnostics procedure including how it is identified in the clinical laboratory
IV. Epidemiology of the disease (18 points)
1. Individuals at risk (must include statistics from CDC/WHO)
2. Transmission mechanism(s) (how is it spread: routes)
3. Human behaviors involved in its spread
V. Control of the pathogen and/or disease (18 points)
1. Methods of disease prevention (including vaccines if any, behaviors)
2. Clinical treatment of disease process (including specific drugs given if any)
3. Infection control of the microorganism (preventing spread of infection)
VI. Your personal thoughts and conclusions related to prevention, treatment, education or
research (8 points for at least 150 words)
VII. Grammar, spelling, organization (12 points) (no high school level papers, do not use first person)
VIII. Reference page (at least 3 sites and 3 journals) (6 points for correct reference)
1. Textbook or scientific internet site
2. Microbiology Journal
3. Medical Journal
Notes:
It must absolutely be turned-in in person by due date, no email submissions will be accepted,
must be stapled and have a cover page (no folders please).
No plagiarism, everything must be in your own words and cited, or you will receive a zero
(no quoting allowed).
No bullets, or list type formats of any kind, you must use complete sentences and organize
information in paragraph style in the order shown in the rubric, must use a subtitle for every
section and you must use grammar and spelling check found in the Review tab in Word and
correct any mistakes before turning it in.
Use APA style format (Blackboard has links to what this format requires). No use of first person
at all, ie: do not use “you” or “I” or “we”. Always write in the third person or pasive voice.
Personal thoughts must contain an idea or solution related to research, education or prevention,
not just simply what you think about it, and must be at least 150 words.
The microbe name must be in italics, use both words the first time, abbreviate subsequently.
A reference list must be included at the end, and “in text” citations must be used any time you
use information from the 3 required journals, even if you used that information in your own
words. Not using in text-citations for the journals or not using journals is an automatic 15 point
deduction per journal.
Morphology specifics: Bacteria: Shape, size, gram status if bacteria, does it have a capsule, does
it have flagella (one or more?), endospore former?, biofilm former? Viruses: shape, size, does it
have an envelope?, is the genetic material DNA or RNA?, ds or ss?. Fungi, protozoa, parasites:
shape, size, life stages.
Metabolism specifics: Bacteria: oxygen requirements, cellular/acellular respiration, fermenter?,
glucose, lactose, sucrose, mannitol fermenter? Starch hydrolysis? Citrate producer?, indole
producer?, use hydrogen sulfide?, nitrate reducer?, catalase and oxidase positive or negative?,
motile? Acid producer? Viruses: do not have their own metabolism, explain to me why in this
section. Viruses also dramatically alter host cell metabolism, explain how yours does: glycolysis
inducer? Fatty acid synthesis inducer? Glutaminolysis inducer? If you have a protozoan parasite
or worm or fungi, you still need to find information about their morphology and metabolism,
even if not exactly related to the specifics listed above. Your first step is to determine what kind
of microbe it is so that you can research the correct information.
Environmental conditions specifics: Bacteria: aerobic, anaerobic, facultative anaerobic,
microaerophile, or aerotolerant? Acidophile/neutrophile/alkalinophile?
Mesophile/thermophile/psychrophile? Where does it like to live? Airborne, waterborne,
foodborne+? Viruses: infect particular cells, so in this section you would explain to me what kind
of cells or tissues they target, same for parasites or fungi.
There is no maximum amount of pages or journals used. The more sources you use, the more
complete the paper will be and the more likely to receive a higher grade. Having an abstract
paragraph at the beginning will increase your grade. However, the abstract must be 150 words minimum
and must be a concise summary of the microbe and disease, not a summary of what you did in the paper.
Finally, to obtain full point credit per subsection, each subsection must be a full separate paragraph
containing no less than 150 words. Anything less will be incomplete and receive less points.
1 Staphylococcus aureus 26 Escherichia coli 0157:H7
2 Varicella virus (chickenpox) 27 Clostridium botulinum
3 Herpes Simplex virus 28 Vibrio cholerae
4 Bacillus thuringiensis 29 Borrelia burgdorferi
5 Hepatitis B virus 30 Neisseria gonorrhoeae
6 Measles virus 31 Histoplasmosis
7 Streptococcus pyogenes 32 Clostridium tetani
8 Yersinia pestis 33 Rickettsia rickettsi
9 Bacillus anthracis 34 Treponema pallidum
10 Leptospira interrogans 35 Chlamydia trachomatis
11 Haemophilus ducreyi 36 Human Papillomavirus
12 Candida albicans 37 Trichomonas vaginalis
13 Mycobacterium leprae 38 Streptococcus pneumoniae
14 Cryptococcus neoformans 39 Klebsiella pneumoniae
15 Sarcoptes scabiei 40 Rubivirus
16 Trypanosoma brucei 41 Entamoeba histolytica
17 Chlamydophila psittaci 42 Giardia intestinalis
18 Pseudomonas aeruginosa 43 Rotavirus
19 Norovirus 44 Mumps virus
20 Helicobacter pylori 45 Clostridium difficile
21 Bordetella pertussis 46 Mycobacterium tuberculosis
22 Epstein-Barr virus 47 Blastomyces dermatitidis
23 Coxiella burnetii 48 Clostridium perfringens
24 Toxoplasma gondii 49 Dengue Fever virus
25 Francisella tularensis 50 Lyssavirus (rabies)
Table I. Recommended Reference Formatting:
Websites: Author (if any). Title of Site. URL (accessed date), other identifying
information.
Example:
Ammonia, http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/ product/aldrich/294993?lang=en®i
on=US (accessed 06/12/14), SigmaAlrich, Copyright 2014.
Books: Name (with initials) of author(s), title of book (italics), publisher and their
location, year, page number
Example:
Dasent, W.E. Inorganic Energetics, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press: Cambridge,
UK, 1982, p. 172.
Journal articles: Name (with initials) of author(s), article title, title of journal (properly
abbreviated and in italics), year (bold), volume (italics), pages
Example:
Young, S. W., Stearn, Article Title, A. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 1947-1953.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT REFERENCE JOURNAL ARTICLES BY ONLY PROVIDING
WEBSITE ADDRESS WHERE YOU FOUND IT, ALL THE INFORMATION NEEDED
TO CITE A JOURNAL ARTICLE IS IN THE ARTICLE ITSELF AS SHOWN ABOVE.
(10 point deduction per journal for doing this)