Microorganisms That Cause Disease

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Coronet

Description: Uses animation, cinephotomicrography, and live-action photography to show the effects of disease-causing organisms on living cells. Individually treats each type of microorganism: fungi, bacteria, viruses, rickettsia, and protozoa. Shows examples of cell destruction by fungi causing athlete's foot, red blood cell destruction by bacteria toxin, nerve cell destruction by polio virus, and action on red blood cells by malaria protozoa. Rickettsia is depicted as it is transmitted by bites of animals such as ticks.

Complete Record: Foot, doctor, rabbit, hypodermic, cellular images, doctor examines foot fungi, test tube pouring, doctor petting bunny, horrible experiment on rabbit, microscopes.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)

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