MERINO 1 & 2 : When ID meets FIFA WC 2026. One gives the TRIAL and the other gives the LEAD. ⚽🫘💉
When will we get MERINO 3?
#FIFAWorldCup@IDstewardship@IDiots_pod
@draghafur Fun fact: The organic compound Geosmin is produced by Streptomyces and is a main component of the earthy smell that rises after rain, called petrichor.😊
It is one of the most sensitive in terms of the smallest concentration, which is bactericidal; it is one of the most resistant in terms of the time for which it must be exposed to that concentration in order to be killed.” (2/2)
Such an oxymoron.
This is like poetry in ID.
#Mandellpearls#medtwitter#infectiousdisease
As elegantly stated by Eagle and colleagues,
Treponema pallidum is … one of the most sensitive, as well as one of the most resistant of all bacteria to the action of penicillin. (1/2)
Connect the images to identify the fungus🍄
This guy discovered that microorganisms can cause disease even before Pasteur and Koch🔬
Silk worm disease🐛
Rarely causes disease in immunocompromised😷
Lab contaminant otherwise 🧫
Clue: Discoverer's name
It is characterized by smooth, continuous, slow (1-3 Hz), pendular, convergent-divergent nystagmus, concurrent contractions of the masticatory muscles, supranuclear vertical gaze palsy, and occasionally, rhythmic movements of the limbs.
CNS complication of an infectious disease. 🧠
Name the complication👀
Name the agent🦠
This complication is specific, if not pathognomonic for this infectious diseases.🤒💩
Antibiotic #005💊
Antibacterial & Antiprotozoal🦠
Brother of nitrofurantoin 👨👦
Refractory H.pylori PUD, Infective diarrhoea, Giardiasis, Trichomoniasis
Potentially carcinogenic,mutagenic🧬
MAO inhibitor🧀
Seldom used clinically
Used in the lab to ID Staphylococcus
I'm a gene that codes for a potassium channel in the heart.🧬🫀
I'm named after a nightclub in California.🍻💃🏻
Connect the pictures to find me.🔎
Happy weekend, party hard!!!🪩