BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
MICROBES IN HUMAN WELFARE
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whooping cough
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diphtheria
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leprosy
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organ-transplant patients
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cyclosporin A is used as an immunosuppressive agent in organ transplant patients produced by the fungus Trichoderma polysporum.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Cyclosporin A’ is also a bioactive molecule that is used as an immunosuppressive agent in organ transplant patients.
Detailed explanation-3: -When a patient receives an organ transplant, the body’s white blood cells will try to get rid of (reject) the transplanted organ. Cyclosporine works by suppressing the immune system to prevent the white blood cells from trying to get rid of the transplanted organ.
Detailed explanation-4: -The bioactive molecule is Cyclosporin-A produced by a fungus Trichoderma polysporum which is used as an immuno-suppressive agent.
Detailed explanation-5: -Cyclosporine is an immunosuppressive agent used to treat organ rejection post-transplant. It also has use in certain other autoimmune diseases, treatment of organ rejection in kidney, liver, and heart allogeneic transplants, rheumatoid arthritis when the condition has not adequately responded to methotrexate.