Review a microbial journal article. For example an article on Pathogenicity & Virulence; E.Coli
or Environmental Microbiology; fungi
Choose one article from a primary scientific literature source that uses a microbe as a model organism/system and write a comprehensive summary of the study that answers the following questions:
Choose one article from a primary scientific literature source that uses a microbe as a model organism/system.
NOTE: May be obtained from http://www.pubmed.gov
Write a summary of the study that includes the following 5 questions:
– Why did the scientists perform the study (i.e., description of background)?
– What was the hypothesis (or hypotheses) under investigation?
– What were the major results and did they support or negate the hypothesis? Which key techniques were used to achieve these results?
– Why are the results significant and do they point to further/future studies? In other words, why does this article matter and what should or could be done next?
– Why did you choose this particular article to review? Was it interesting, informative, clearly written, or none of the above?
Compose your review in APA format and include:
-A title page
-Answers to the questions above in paragraph format (2 or more pages)
-A reference page with the reference for your article and any other sources used in your review.
– Use Pub Med as a reference
– only peer-reviewed articles