Edmund Asante

Biomedical Scientist 👨‍🔬 🧬 🔬 🧪 || instrumentalist 🎺 || interested in #microbiology #biotechnology

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Real Madrid have verbal agreement in place with Ibrahima Konaté!

Four year deal to be signed, depending on if/when Florentino Pérez is re-elected.

Here we go, expected right after. 🔜

Konaté put Saudi bids on hold for Real Madrid, as @marcosbenito9 reported.

[JCO @jcomls]

The Doctors' headache.

When you swallow a drug(tablet) or get an injection, to treat S aureus infection, you don't care how the drug deals with the bacteria inside your body

Do you? No, you don't. You just want to get well, period.

If you take the drugs but don't feel better, you begin to worry if the drug is fake or if your ‘village people’ are after your life.

This is how you will feel if you have MRSA and you are taking penicillin or oxacillin (for example).

The drug is not fake, but it won't work.

And you know WHY if you have been following my posts since Monday.

If you go to your local pharmacy or chemist, you will notice that the drugs doctors use to treat S aureus infection belong to the following class of drugs

1 Penicillins(natural and synthetic)
2. Cephalosporins(all generations)
3. Carbapenems

These classes of drugs are generally called Beta-lactam drugs.

They are called Beta-lactam because all of them contain a chemical structure called a Beta-lactam ring.

When you take any of the drugs (tablet or injection) for the treatment of S. aureus, the ring will directly target S. aureus at the site of infection and bind to its body.

The part of the body (of S aureus) where the ring binds is called Penicillin Binding Protein(PBP).

The successful binding of the ring on the PBP makes the S aureus explode and die.

Yes, bacteria die nah.

The binding and explosion will continue for hours or days as determined by your doctor.

This happens inside your body!! You are the battlefield!!

If your doctor tells you to take the drug every 8 hours for 3 days, they want the drug to continuously bombard the fvking bacteria till all of them die, so you can be set free!

If you miss a dose or stop taking the drugs, you are giving the bacteria a chance to regroup.

Never do this, please. Complete your drugs when you are sick.

If the S aureus is an MRSA, the Beta-lactam ring will NOT bind successfully because the bacteria body part has changed from PBP to PBP2a.

It changed from a 'circle to a Rectangle'.

And the reason is that an ordinary S aureus (MSSA) got a weapon (MecA or C Gene) and turned into MRSA.

This gives doctors arrhythmia because they can't treat MRSA with penicillins, cephalosporins (all generations *), and carbapenems.

These are handy drugs Doctors can prescribe and you walk across the road to your local pharmacy and get them.

Now you can't.

But doctors didn't give up

They went to Russia and got some pump action rifles and RPGs to deal with MRSA strains.

What they got from Russia are Vancomycin, Linezolid, Daptomycin etc.

But,

At this point, I will be taking you inside the medical microbiology lab, there is something I need to show you!.......especially if you are a medical lab scientist.

Are you ready to follow me inside?

[Kamran Ahmad, MD @drkamikhan123]

Tumor markers

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🍁Diabetic ketoacidosis summary

#medx
#medEd

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LAB VALUES

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

@mICROBIOsh Microbiology is the best

[mICROBIO @mICROBIOsh]

Serratia marcescens en agar MacConkey 🍒

📸: Lacey

[Akinwale Faniyi @faniyi_akinwale]

Urinary Tract Infections:

UTIs are a common and uncomfortable condition that affects millions of people worldwide. From symptoms to treatment options, get the scoop on what you need to know to stay informed and healthy. Check out our infographic below to learn more!"

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

What are the 2 pigments produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that are useful in the clinical laboratory?

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

@dozidozi1992 Penicillin also affect cell wall synthesis but it is not part of the options

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

What type of antibiotics works by affecting cell wall synthesis?

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

@OyimBig @mls_eddy

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

@MadridXtra Arda Guler. Give the kid some playing time

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

@kelvin_wrld @PreciousAnene1 Yes for instance, absence of nitrite means that at least we can make a preliminary assumption that even if a UTI is present, the bacteria isn’t in the enterobacteriaceae family since members of the enterobacteriaceae reduce nitrate to nitrite

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

@PreciousAnene1 It’s literally the easiest thing you can do at the LAB

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

@AkologoRita @screenandtreat @WHO @RabbiBaidoo1 @KwesiWilliams11 Keep up the good work 👏🏻

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

@SirChely Good day sir, My name is Edmund, a medical Laboratory Scientist from Ghana 🇬🇭

[JCO @jcomls]

Medical lab Scientists

What you see here are bacterial colonies on a culture media plate. Each one looking like a dot is called a colony. Each colony contains thousands of bacterial cells

[Repro Scientist @ShololaDamilol2]

Enterobius vermicularis

Causes Pinworm infection (enterobiasis), usually with serious perianal (periineum/Anus) itching that comes with some sweetening vibes. Mostly at night 😂

[Edmund Asante @mls_eddy]

In this post, we will use the below chart and mnemonic to discuss the different antibiotic classes along with their gram coverage, mechanism of action (how they work), drug names, and example uses. https://t.co/nU9iF2Chpn