Quantum of Science

Bolesnik obolio od tuberkuloze, izvor:ABC 24. marta 1882. Robert Koch je identifikovao uzročnika tuberkuloze - Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Taj dan se obilježava kao Svjetski dan borbe protiv tuberkuloze.  Bakterija koja uzrokuje tuberkulozu, Mycobacterium tuberculosi s, postaje rezistentna na postojeće antibiotike. Prema izvještaju Svjetske zdravstvene organizacija (WHO) iz 2014. godine, oko 5% novih slučajeva tuberkuloze se ne može tretirati antibioticima jer se radi o novom, rezistentnom soju bakterije. 2015. je zabilježeno oko 10.8 miliona novih slučajeva tuberkuloze u svijetu, a oko 2 miliona ljudi je podleglo ovoj opakoj bolesti. Pola miliona novih slučajeva su izazvani antibiotik rezistentnim sojevima mikobakterijuma. Ti sojevi, označeni kao MDR-TB (Multi-Drug Resistant) i XDR-TB (Extensively-Drug Resistant) su osjetljivi samo na neke nove i veoma skupe antibiotike. Mycobacterium tuberculosis U potrazi sa spojevima koji bi zaustavili ovaj patogen prij...

Even those not keen on the western movie genre nor movie-lovers, know about the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a 1957. movie starring Burt Lancaster (Wyatt Earp) and Kirk Douglas (Doc Holliday). The better informed ones know that the movie is based on a real event – a shootout that lasted 30 seconds with 30 shots fired, on October 26, 1881. in a small town of Tombstone, Arizona. Why write about the shootout at O.K. Corral on this blog? Be patient, continue reading and learn something. This showdown between the frontier marshals and a group of cowboys who refused to obey the laws had a distant echo in the modern American history. That was a time when the Wild West started losing some of its' wildness and the beginning of law enforcement. Cowboys were less considered to be loners with the occasional livestock protection jobs, and more to be scatterbrains, bullies and people who opposed the introduction of the rule of law to territories they occupied, limited as their...