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This page considers the threat of Types of Harmful Microorganisms with reference to biological warfare, infectious diseases and genetic mutations and points to some useful website research material about Types of Harmful Microorganisms.
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This page is a near duplicate of the more popular title Harmful Microorganisms because the page titles should be about the same topic.
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Types of Harmful Microorganisms and the threat of biological warfare agents, infectious diseases, and water and food supply contaminants.
The world at large is right to be concerned about the use of pathogens by terrorists or nations as a result of
biological warfare. These issues were the underlying cause of the Iraq conflict and still sit uneasily in the
minds of the western world.
Genetic mutations
However, a different type of Types of Harmful Microorganisms threat, the release, either intentionally or unintentionally, of laboratory strains and
genetically modified organisms, is under-estimated. These include natural, highly antibiotic-resistant
commercial strains, as well as bacteria that were created whether by genetic manipulations such as rapid DNA shuffling
or by rationally designed point mutations. Such Types of Harmful Microorganisms can interact with human pathogens and can easily change the
microbial diversity and ecology that we know today.
Plant pathogens
We have already experienced an example of such release in the case of the antibiotic-resistant human opportunistic
pathogen Burkholderia cepacia. This plant pathogen is used in agriculture as a biocontrol agent and in the
bioremediation of toxic chemicals. The Types of Harmful Microorganisms Burkholderia cepacia is still released into the environment as a bioremediation
agent, despite the fact that it is now recognized to be a cause of devastating infections inpatients with cystic
fibrosis and in other vulnerable individuals, and its use in agriculture is controlled by the Environmental
Protection Agency.
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The most relevant links we could find, placed here free
 Educational notes on microorganisms
- Year 8 - Microbes & Disease Revision Notes. www.sciencepages.co.uk
Nottingham City Council
- Useful material about Food Poisoning. www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk
US Environment protection agency
- tips on how consumers can control Types of Harmful Microorganisms. www.epa.gov
EUROPA
- Plant Health - Harmful Organisms - From the farm to the fork. ec.europa.eu
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