Here it is!

#Inktober2020 day 1 in my #PathogenPortraits series. After years of studying this in cow bums, it had to be #EcoliO157

It causes bloody diarrhoea & if that wasn& #39;t bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/escherichia-coli-e-coli-o157
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 2 in my #PathogenPortraits series. & #39;The Clap& #39; (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) b/c who doesn& #39;t https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💚" title="Grünes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Grünes Herz"> green purulent discharge?

It& #39;s sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neisseria_gonorrhoeae

https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 3 in my #PathogenPortraits series. The very https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💛" title="Gelbes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Gelbes Herz">goldenhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💛" title="Gelbes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Gelbes Herz"> #MRSA.

Minds it& #39;s own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won& #39;t do a thing to stop it.

More info at http://mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html ">https://mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html... #sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 3 in my #PathogenPortraits series. The very https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=goldenhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💛" title="Gelbes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Gelbes Herz"> #MRSA.Minds it& #39;s own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won& #39;t do a thing to stop it.More info at https://mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html... #sciart #microbiology" title=" #Inktober2020 day 3 in my #PathogenPortraits series. The very https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💛" title="Gelbes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Gelbes Herz">goldenhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💛" title="Gelbes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Gelbes Herz"> #MRSA.Minds it& #39;s own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won& #39;t do a thing to stop it.More info at https://mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html... #sciart #microbiology" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
#Inktober2020 day 4 in my #PathogenPortraits series - the King O& #39; #cholera!

A waterborne infection
Can cause & #39;rice water& #39; stools.
Its #Phage-encoded #toxin creates a deadly cesspool!

More info: https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/infection-sources.html
https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/i... class="Emoji" style="height:16px;" src=" https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht" aria-label="Emoji: Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht">Suggestions still welcome!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht" aria-label="Emoji: Polizeiautos mit drehendem Licht">
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 5 in my #PathogenPortraits series - it& #39;s super stinky C. diff[icile]!

When your gut flora gets out of whack, C. diff takes advantage & your guts unpack. Then it keeps on coming back!

More info: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/clostridium-difficile-guidance-data-and-analysis
https://www.gov.uk/governmen... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology #scicomm #HAIs
#inktober2020 day 6 in my #PathogenPortraits
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟢" title="Grüner Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Grüner Kreis">SNOT ALERThttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟢" title="Grüner Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Grüner Kreis">
It& #39;s the human rhinoviruses!

Causing >50% of all common colds, these pesky viruses are also responsible for serious respiratory illnesses in the young & elderly.

More info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology
#inktober2020 day 6 in my #PathogenPortraitshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=SNOT ALERThttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟢" title="Grüner Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Grüner Kreis">It& #39;s the human rhinoviruses!Causing >50% of all common colds, these pesky viruses are also responsible for serious respiratory illnesses in the young & elderly.More info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology" title=" #inktober2020 day 6 in my #PathogenPortraitshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟢" title="Grüner Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Grüner Kreis">SNOT ALERThttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟢" title="Grüner Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Grüner Kreis">It& #39;s the human rhinoviruses!Causing >50% of all common colds, these pesky viruses are also responsible for serious respiratory illnesses in the young & elderly.More info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
#Inktober2020 day 7 in my #PathogenPortraits series - time for slow & steady Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( #TB).

Preventable. Curable for now. Yet latent in 1:4 people globally. Active lung TB used to be called consumption.

More info: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tuberculosis
https://www.who.int/news-room... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 8 in my #PathogenPortraits - as requested, it& #39;s Trypanosoma!

These pretty little parasites cause #SleepingSickness. 1st in the blood, then in the head, where they stay until you& #39;re dead.

More info: #tab=tab_1">https://www.who.int/health-topics/human-african-trypanosomiasis #tab=tab_1
https://www.who.int/health-to... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #Microbiology #HAT #tryps #SOS
#Inktober2020 day 9 in my #PathogenPortraits series - the natural born killer, #Bdellovibrio!

This #pathogen eats most of the other #bacteria members of this series... & #39;nuff said?

More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Bdellovibrio
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology
(great suggestion @markowenmartin!)
#Inktober2020 day 10 in my #PathogenPortraits. Sth for #PlantSci & #Fungi folks- Hymenoscyphus fraxineus!
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Laubbaum" aria-label="Emoji: Laubbaum">
It& #39;s causing the #AshDieBack spreading across Europe. 1st leaves blacken & wilt, then cankers starve the #trees
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Laubbaum" aria-label="Emoji: Laubbaum">
More info: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/pest-and-disease-resources/ash-dieback-hymenoscyphus-fraxineus/
https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Sciart"> #Sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 10 in my #PathogenPortraits. Sth for #PlantSci & #Fungi folks- Hymenoscyphus fraxineus!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=It& #39;s causing the #AshDieBack spreading across Europe. 1st leaves blacken & wilt, then cankers starve the #treeshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Laubbaum" aria-label="Emoji: Laubbaum">More info: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Sciart"> #Sciart #microbiology" title=" #Inktober2020 day 10 in my #PathogenPortraits. Sth for #PlantSci & #Fungi folks- Hymenoscyphus fraxineus!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Laubbaum" aria-label="Emoji: Laubbaum">It& #39;s causing the #AshDieBack spreading across Europe. 1st leaves blacken & wilt, then cankers starve the #treeshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌳" title="Laubbaum" aria-label="Emoji: Laubbaum">More info: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Sciart"> #Sciart #microbiology" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
#Inktober2020 day 11 of my #PathogenPortraits- #microbiology meets #entomology, it& #39;s #malaria!
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">
A Plasmodium sporozoite will morph into many forms, each adapted to the liver, blood, & getting into another female mosquito.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">
More info: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/a... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SciArt"> #SciArt
#Inktober2020 day 11 of my #PathogenPortraits- #microbiology meets #entomology, it& #39;s #malaria! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">A Plasmodium sporozoite will morph into many forms, each adapted to the liver, blood, & getting into another female mosquito.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">More info: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/a... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SciArt"> #SciArt" title=" #Inktober2020 day 11 of my #PathogenPortraits- #microbiology meets #entomology, it& #39;s #malaria! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">A Plasmodium sporozoite will morph into many forms, each adapted to the liver, blood, & getting into another female mosquito.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦟" title="Mosquito" aria-label="Emoji: Mosquito">More info: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/a... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SciArt"> #SciArt" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Please wait while we try to reconnect you to a thread of pathogenic doom...
(I had a migraine yesterday and was not good for much, so I guess today I& #39;m playing catch-up!)
#Inktober2020 day 12 of my #PathogenPortraits series - have some #Poliovirus paralysis!

Decades after devastating outbreaks & a desperate race for a #vaccine, #Polio is nearly eradicated. But it& #39;s not dead yet...

More info: https://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-prevention/the-virus/
https://polioeradication.org/polio-tod... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SciArt"> #SciArt #Microbiology #Scicomm
#Inktober2020 day 13 of my #PathogenPortraits series - the infamous #Aspergillus.

If its #spores aren& #39;t cleared away from wherever they land inside you, they start growing invasively. Usually in the #lungs. Eeep!

More info: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540036/all/Aspergillus
https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/v... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SciArt"> #SciArt #microbiology #scicomm
#Inktober day 14 of my #PathogenPortraits series - the 1980s ninja - it& #39;s #HIV!
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎗" title="Erinnerungsband" aria-label="Emoji: Erinnerungsband">
It hides in #tcells for 10-15 years, like a fine whisky aged, slowly causing its host #AIDS.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎗" title="Erinnerungsband" aria-label="Emoji: Erinnerungsband">
More info: https://hiv.gov"> https://hiv.gov 
#SciArt #microbiology
#Inktober day 14 of my #PathogenPortraits series - the 1980s ninja - it& #39;s #HIV! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=It hides in #tcells for 10-15 years, like a fine whisky aged, slowly causing its host #AIDS. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎗" title="Erinnerungsband" aria-label="Emoji: Erinnerungsband">More info: https://hiv.gov  #SciArt #microbiology" title=" #Inktober day 14 of my #PathogenPortraits series - the 1980s ninja - it& #39;s #HIV! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎗" title="Erinnerungsband" aria-label="Emoji: Erinnerungsband">It hides in #tcells for 10-15 years, like a fine whisky aged, slowly causing its host #AIDS. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎗" title="Erinnerungsband" aria-label="Emoji: Erinnerungsband">More info: https://hiv.gov  #SciArt #microbiology" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
#inktober2020 day 15 of my #PathogenPortraits - a plague on all your houses!

Infamous for killing 50M ppl in the 1500s & #39;black death& #39;, #Yersinia is now curable with #antibiotics. Without these, it kills 30-100% of hosts.

More info: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/plague#:~:text=Plague%20is%20caused%20by%20the,plague%20infection%3A%20bubonic%20and%20pneumonic.
https://www.who.int/news-room... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 16 of my #PathogenPortraits - flesh eating #bacteria! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😱" title="Vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht">

But #Strep pyogenes doesn& #39;t always want to eat you. It also causes #StrepThroat & #Impetigo. Which is much less scary than necrotising fasciitis.

More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Streptococcus_pyogenes

https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Sciart"> #Sciart #Microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 16 of my #PathogenPortraits - flesh eating #bacteria! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=But #Strep pyogenes doesn& #39;t always want to eat you. It also causes #StrepThroat & #Impetigo. Which is much less scary than necrotising fasciitis.More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Sciart"> #Sciart #Microbiology" title=" #Inktober2020 day 16 of my #PathogenPortraits - flesh eating #bacteria! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😱" title="Vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht">But #Strep pyogenes doesn& #39;t always want to eat you. It also causes #StrepThroat & #Impetigo. Which is much less scary than necrotising fasciitis.More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Sciart"> #Sciart #Microbiology" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
#Inktober2020 day 17 of my #PathogenPortraits - [not actually] German [not actually] measles. What?!

#Rubella virus! Causes completely preventable #congenital defects, but 1:5 babies don& #39;t have access to the #vaccine

More info: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/immunization/infographic/stop_rubella.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhea... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology #CRS
#Inktober2020 day 18 of my #PathogenPortraits - some sticky #Pseudomonas?

P. aeruginosa makes a niche in immunocompromised ppl by forming kickass #biofilms. It does this partly by oozing sticky sugars like alginate.

More info: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/mic.0.000860
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/j... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology #CF
#Inktober2020 day 19 of my #PathogenPortraits- give us a twirl, swirly #Borrelia!

B. burgdorferi are spirochaetes (corkscrew shaped #bacteria) that cause #LymeDisease. Spread by ticks & super tricky to diagnose!

More info: https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/lyme-disease/about-lyme/">https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basi... @Lymenews
#SciArt #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 20 of my #PathogenPortraits- https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⏰" title="Wecker" aria-label="Emoji: Wecker"> to get serious with #Measles

Preventable, but b/c #VaccinesWork, we& #39;ve forgotten how serious it is. It can cause blindness, pneumonia & death. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➕" title="Fettes Pluszeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Pluszeichen"> it& #39;s >6x infectious than #SARSCoV2!

More info: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
https://www.who.int/news-room... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SciArt"> #SciArt
#Inktober2020 day 20 of my #PathogenPortraits- https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable= to get serious with #MeaslesPreventable, but b/c #VaccinesWork, we& #39;ve forgotten how serious it is. It can cause blindness, pneumonia & death. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➕" title="Fettes Pluszeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Pluszeichen"> it& #39;s >6x infectious than #SARSCoV2!More info: https://www.who.int/news-room... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SciArt"> #SciArt" title=" #Inktober2020 day 20 of my #PathogenPortraits- https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⏰" title="Wecker" aria-label="Emoji: Wecker"> to get serious with #MeaslesPreventable, but b/c #VaccinesWork, we& #39;ve forgotten how serious it is. It can cause blindness, pneumonia & death. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➕" title="Fettes Pluszeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Pluszeichen"> it& #39;s >6x infectious than #SARSCoV2!More info: https://www.who.int/news-room... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SciArt"> #SciArt" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
#Inktober2020 day 21 of my #PathogenPortraits - a disease dichotomy w. #Salmonella enterica.

Lots of serovars - can mostly cause gastroenteritis in many hosts. BUT can adapt to cause invasive #typhoid fever.

More info: https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-phlncd-salmonella.htm
https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/sciart"> #sciart #microbiology #typhi #iNTS
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