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Public Service Announcement (PSA)

I. General Instructions

PSA are short an important messages, produced for newspaper, film video or radio. For this assignment, you will need to choose a microorganism of your interest. In a not so distant future in your careers you will need to be able to explain how microorganisms interact with us either making us sick or to help us recover. This assignment aims to address such an event.

Most of you have chosen a brochure type instead of a video or radio recording. In that case You have to upload the brochure as a pdf (you can make it in a Powerpoint doc and save it as pdf) The deadline to upload this is Tuesday April 10th at 10 AM.

* The order of presentation can be of your choosing if you go to the document PSA list there is a worksheet to choose when to present. If there are empty slots for the Tuesday presentation I might change the order.

You can use this list to find your microbe or disease of interest. It is one microorganism/disease per student.

1. Coccidiomycosis 2. Zika virus 3. Mononucleosis by EPV 4. Methicillin-resistant

Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections

5. Cholera: V.cholerae 6. Dengue 7. Malaria 8. Lyme infection 9. Tapeworm infection 10. Toxoplasmosis 11. Diphtheria 12. Clostridium difficile 13. Food poisoning by E. coli 14. Anthrax 15. Botulism 16. Tetanus 17. Tuberculosis

18. ·Lung cryptococcosis 19. Syphilis 20. Shigella spp. 21. Avian Flu 22. White nose syndrome (bats) 23. Babesiosis (horse infection) 24. Lactococci spp. 25. Lactobacilus spp. 26. Pseudomonas aeruginosa 27. Vibrio fisherii (biolumiscent

bacteria) 28. Radiococcus radiodurans 29. Chlorobium spp. (anaerobic

photosynthesis) 30. Bacillus thuringiensis 31. Thiomargarita namibiensis (one

of the biggest microbes that exist in nature).

I have to know which microbe you choose for what I ask again to write the microbe of your choosing ASAP and let me know in the following document--> PSA list

Contact me if you have another specific organism you would like to study. After deciding which microorganism you will work with. Start collecting information on it. Use the book, the library journals or go online to find trusted sites: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ www.asm.org www.cdc.gov/ www.who.int/en/ Use the following to guide your research Section 1 What is the causative agent of this disease? Give characteristics of the organism that will help the reader understand its biological nature. Section 2 A description summarizing the clinical identification of your organism including types of stains and biochemical tests that would successfully identify your organism Section 3 What types of drugs are most successful against your organism, and what is their mode of action? Section 4 Modes of transmission. How is your particular organism transferred from one host to another? Is there a relationship between nosocomial infection and your specific organism? Section 5 What are the rates of this disease on college campuses? How can its spread be prevented? Section 6 "For more information" contacts Section 7 References

II. Presentation Guidelines

You are presenting individually for 8 mins tops. Points will be given not only for your presentation but for how you behave with other people's presentation too. The audience should remain respectfully quiet while speaker is presenting info until is time for questions or proper interruption

No cell phone texting is permitted (only for the occasional picture if desired) First tell us to whom you are directing this presentation: Are you taking it to a hospital? A school? (middle, high school, college). This way we can play the part. Speaker should introduce her/him self and tell us where they are coming from. (are you a nurse from a hospital, a volunteer? Asking questions is important If you want a perfect score be sure to ask some interesting questions. While your friends are presenting and/or in the assignment III. Grades: There are 3 components:

• The brochure/document itself--> needs to be uploaded on time • The delivery of the presentation--> at the time specified by you or

instructor • Your participation in the presentation of others--> includes your

questions to the presenter as well as filling up the PSA peer review assignment