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#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't bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/escherichia-coli-e-coli-o157
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#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't bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/escherichia-coli-e-coli-o157
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 2 in my #PathogenPortraits series. 'The Clap' (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) b/c who doesn't 
green purulent discharge?
It's sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neisseria_gonorrhoeae
#sciart #microbiology
green purulent discharge?It's sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neisseria_gonorrhoeae
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 3 in my #PathogenPortraits series. The very 
golden #MRSA.
Minds it's own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won't do a thing to stop it.
More info at http://mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html #sciart #microbiology
golden #MRSA.Minds it's own business on your skin, but if it gets inside, methicillin won't do a thing to stop it.
More info at http://mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html #sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 4 in my #PathogenPortraits series - the King O' #cholera!
A waterborne infection
Can cause 'rice water' stools.
Its #Phage-encoded #toxin creates a deadly cesspool!
More info: https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/infection-sources.html
Suggestions still welcome!
#sciart #microbiology
A waterborne infection
Can cause 'rice water' stools.
Its #Phage-encoded #toxin creates a deadly cesspool!
More info: https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/infection-sources.html
Suggestions still welcome!#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 5 in my #PathogenPortraits series - it'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
#sciart #microbiology #scicomm #HAIs
![#Inktober2020 day 5 in my #PathogenPortraits series - it'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 #sciart #microbiology #scicomm #HAIs](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjlpPfhWkAUbnZU.png "#Inktober2020 day 5 in my #PathogenPortraits series - it'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 #sciart #microbiology #scicomm #HAIs")
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
#sciart #microbiology #scicomm #HAIs
#inktober2020 day 6 in my #PathogenPortraits
SNOT ALERT
It'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/
#sciart #microbiology
SNOT ALERTIt'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/
#sciart #microbiology
#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
#sciart #microbiology
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
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 8 in my #PathogenPortraits - as requested, it's Trypanosoma!
These pretty little parasites cause #SleepingSickness. 1st in the blood, then in the head, where they stay until you're dead.
More info: https://www.who.int/health-topics/human-african-trypanosomiasis#tab=tab_1
#sciart #Microbiology #HAT #tryps #SOS
These pretty little parasites cause #SleepingSickness. 1st in the blood, then in the head, where they stay until you're dead.
More info: https://www.who.int/health-topics/human-african-trypanosomiasis#tab=tab_1
#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... 'nuff said?
More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Bdellovibrio
#sciart #microbiology
(great suggestion @markowenmartin!)
This #pathogen eats most of the other #bacteria members of this series... 'nuff said?
More info: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Bdellovibrio
#sciart #microbiology
(great suggestion @markowenmartin!)
#Inktober2020 day 10 in my #PathogenPortraits. Sth for #PlantSci & #Fungi folks- Hymenoscyphus fraxineus!
It's causing the #AshDieBack spreading across Europe. 1st leaves blacken & wilt, then cankers starve the #trees
More info: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/pest-and-disease-resources/ash-dieback-hymenoscyphus-fraxineus/
#Sciart #microbiology
It's causing the #AshDieBack spreading across Europe. 1st leaves blacken & wilt, then cankers starve the #trees
More info: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/pest-and-disease-resources/ash-dieback-hymenoscyphus-fraxineus/
#Sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 11 of my #PathogenPortraits- #microbiology meets #entomology, it's #malaria!
A Plasmodium sporozoite will morph into many forms, each adapted to the liver, blood, & getting into another female mosquito.
More info: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html
#SciArt
A Plasmodium sporozoite will morph into many forms, each adapted to the liver, blood, & getting into another female mosquito.
More info: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html
#SciArt
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'm playing catch-up!)
(I had a migraine yesterday and was not good for much, so I guess today I'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's not dead yet...
More info: https://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-prevention/the-virus/
#SciArt #Microbiology #Scicomm
Decades after devastating outbreaks & a desperate race for a #vaccine, #Polio is nearly eradicated. But it's not dead yet...
More info: https://polioeradication.org/polio-today/polio-prevention/the-virus/
#SciArt #Microbiology #Scicomm
#Inktober2020 day 13 of my #PathogenPortraits series - the infamous #Aspergillus.
If its #spores aren'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
#SciArt #microbiology #scicomm
If its #spores aren'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
#SciArt #microbiology #scicomm
#Inktober day 14 of my #PathogenPortraits series - the 1980s ninja - it's #HIV!
It hides in #tcells for 10-15 years, like a fine whisky aged, slowly causing its host #AIDS.
More info: https://hiv.gov
#SciArt #microbiology
It hides in #tcells for 10-15 years, like a fine whisky aged, slowly causing its host #AIDS.
More info: https://hiv.gov
#SciArt #microbiology
#inktober2020 day 15 of my #PathogenPortraits - a plague on all your houses!
Infamous for killing 50M ppl in the 1500s 'black death', #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.
#sciart #microbiology
Infamous for killing 50M ppl in the 1500s 'black death', #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.
#sciart #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 16 of my #PathogenPortraits - flesh eating #bacteria! 
But #Strep pyogenes doesn'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
#Sciart #Microbiology
But #Strep pyogenes doesn'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
#Sciart #Microbiology
#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't have access to the #vaccine
More info: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/immunization/infographic/stop_rubella.htm
#sciart #microbiology #CRS
![#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't have access to the #vaccineMore info: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/immunization/infographic/stop_rubella.htm #sciart #microbiology #CRS](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkisA6DWAAU0eWs.png "#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't have access to the #vaccineMore info: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/immunization/infographic/stop_rubella.htm #sciart #microbiology #CRS")
#Rubella virus! Causes completely preventable #congenital defects, but 1:5 babies don't have access to the #vaccine
More info: https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/immunization/infographic/stop_rubella.htm
#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
#sciart #microbiology #CF
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
#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/ @Lymenews
#SciArt #microbiology
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/ @Lymenews
#SciArt #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 20 of my #PathogenPortraits- 
to get serious with #Measles
Preventable, but b/c #VaccinesWork, we've forgotten how serious it is. It can cause blindness, pneumonia & death.
it's >6x infectious than #SARSCoV2!
More info: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
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to get serious with #MeaslesPreventable, but b/c #VaccinesWork, we've forgotten how serious it is. It can cause blindness, pneumonia & death.
it's >6x infectious than #SARSCoV2!More info: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
#SciArt
#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
#sciart #microbiology #typhi #iNTS
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
#sciart #microbiology #typhi #iNTS
