To All My Microbiology Studiers Out There. I Found This Video When I Was Studying For The Virology Block

Me durning finals.

Which Microbe Would You Be?

Buzzfeed has a quiz on what bacteria would you be, based on your personality.

I was a Salinicola salarius. (Which isn’t on my Periodic Table of Microbes!)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/grandon/which-bacteria-are-you-based-on-your-personality-3dk99?utm_term=.am4B9qO8B#.ab5oX2B0o

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My revised pnemonic for ADP ribosylation A-B toxins

Boring     and      serious      people score high in usmle…

Bordetella pertussis and B.cereus  increases   cAMP by inhibiting Gi

Cool    and     Vibrant   people  also score high…

E. coli  and Vibreo cholerae increases cAMP by  activating Gs

Exception: Please please please remember that  Bacillus anthracis has an edema factor which it self acts as adenylate cyclase…. no ADP ribosylation involved..so hence  cAMP level increases.

CYSTIC FRIBROSIS

G511D mutation: missense mutation, Glycine replaced by Aspartate.

Only 5% of pts with CF have this mutation.

Defective channel opening or gating.

IVACAFTOR: new drug, acts directly in the CFTR channel, opens it up. First drug that afects the ethiology :)

Trade name: Kalydeco

Anaerobic ABC

A ctinomyces

B acteroides

C lostridium

[17 Dec 2017] (i thought i’d posted but it’s not appearing? ):) so sorry for the lack of original posts all these months! school has been so tough & i’ve just completed my mid-sem assessments & it’s finally my break! can’t wait to unwind and catch up on my sleep ;-;

I made this because I can never get it right! Hope this helps others. 

If you think of Km as strength and affinity as attraction it makes it easier to remember 

Another Harry Potter Mnemonic (yayyy!!!)

So, whenever I read about this fungi Sporothrix schenckii I think about Bellatrix Lestrange… geti it? 

Sporothrix - Bellatrix

That evil deatheater that killed Sirius Black. But they actually got it wrong in the movie, she doesn’t “Avada Kedavra” him, she just knocked him through that veil where you could hear death people….

Ok, enough with the Harry Potter fact.

To diagnose an infection from Sporothrix schenckii, you have to see this cigar shaped yeasts (from the pus of the lesions), which are the tissue form of the fungi. 

So to remember this, just picture:

“Bellatrix Lestrange smoking a cigar”

(Sporothrix: cigar shaped yeast in pus)

Medically Important Fungi