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't bad enough, sometimes kidney failure & death. More info @
nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-…
#sciart #microbiology
#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 @
nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-…
#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: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neis…
#sciart #microbiology
It's sexually transmitted but also from mother->newborn during birth to cause blindness.
More info: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Neis…
#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 mrsaactionuk.net/MRSA.html #sciart #microbiology
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 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: cdc.gov/cholera/infect…
🚨Suggestions still welcome!🚨
#sciart #microbiology
A waterborne infection
Can cause 'rice water' stools.
Its #Phage-encoded #toxin creates a deadly cesspool!
More info: cdc.gov/cholera/infect…
🚨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: gov.uk/government/col…
#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: gov.uk/government/col…
#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: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
#sciart #microbiology
🟢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: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
#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: who.int/news-room/fact…
#sciart #microbiology
Preventable. Curable for now. Yet latent in 1:4 people globally. Active lung TB used to be called consumption.
More info: who.int/news-room/fact…
#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: who.int/health-topics/…
#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: who.int/health-topics/…
#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: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Bdel…
#sciart #microbiology
(great suggestion @markowenmartin!)
This #pathogen eats most of the other #bacteria members of this series... 'nuff said?
More info: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Bdel…
#sciart #microbiology
(great suggestion @markowenmartin!)
@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: forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-reso…
#Sciart #microbiology
🌳
It's causing the #AshDieBack spreading across Europe. 1st leaves blacken & wilt, then cankers starve the #trees
🌳
More info: forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-reso…
#Sciart #microbiology
@markowenmartin #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: cdc.gov/malaria/about/…
#SciArt
🦟🦟🦟
A Plasmodium sporozoite will morph into many forms, each adapted to the liver, blood, & getting into another female mosquito.
🦟🦟🦟
More info: cdc.gov/malaria/about/…
#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: polioeradication.org/polio-today/po…
#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: polioeradication.org/polio-today/po…
#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: hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/J…
#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: hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/J…
#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: hiv.gov
#SciArt #microbiology
🎗
It hides in #tcells for 10-15 years, like a fine whisky aged, slowly causing its host #AIDS.
🎗
More info: 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: who.int/news-room/fact….
#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: who.int/news-room/fact….
#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: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Stre…
#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: microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Stre…
#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: cdc.gov/globalhealth/i…
#sciart #microbiology #CRS
#Rubella virus! Causes completely preventable #congenital defects, but 1:5 babies don't have access to the #vaccine
More info: cdc.gov/globalhealth/i…
#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: microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…
#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: microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…
#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: lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/ly… @Lymenews
#SciArt #microbiology
B. burgdorferi are spirochaetes (corkscrew shaped #bacteria) that cause #LymeDisease. Spread by ticks & super tricky to diagnose!
More info: lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/ly… @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: who.int/news-room/fact…
#SciArt
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: who.int/news-room/fact…
#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: www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/…
#sciart #microbiology #typhi #iNTS
Lots of serovars - can mostly cause gastroenteritis in many hosts. BUT can adapt to cause invasive #typhoid fever.
More info: www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/…
#sciart #microbiology #typhi #iNTS
#Inktober2020 day 22 of my #PathogenPortraits - I didn't do the horror of #norovirus justice!
🤢
Rapid onset of finding your insides on your outsides, extremely #contagious & most common cause of #gastroenteritis in US.
🤮
More info: nfid.org/infectious-dis…
#SciArt #microbiology
🤢
Rapid onset of finding your insides on your outsides, extremely #contagious & most common cause of #gastroenteritis in US.
🤮
More info: nfid.org/infectious-dis…
#SciArt #microbiology
#Inktober2020 of my #PathogenPortraits - the neglected & very tropical #Leishmania!
🌴
There are >20 species that cause cutaneous (skin), visceral (mostly liver & spleen) & mucosal leishmaniasis via sand fly bites.
🌴
More info: cdc.gov/parasites/leis…
#sciart #microbiology #NTDs
🌴
There are >20 species that cause cutaneous (skin), visceral (mostly liver & spleen) & mucosal leishmaniasis via sand fly bites.
🌴
More info: cdc.gov/parasites/leis…
#sciart #microbiology #NTDs
#Inktober2020 day 24 of my #PathogenPortraits - some #Listeria hysteria!
A rare cause of food poisoning, but 18x more likely during pregnancy, with a 25% mortality in these newborns.
➕ it grows well in the fridge!
❄😱❄
More info: fda.gov/animal-veterin…
#SciArt #Microbiology
A rare cause of food poisoning, but 18x more likely during pregnancy, with a 25% mortality in these newborns.
➕ it grows well in the fridge!
❄😱❄
More info: fda.gov/animal-veterin…
#SciArt #Microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 25 of my #PathogenPortraits- I'm a sucker for #Giardia's sucker!
A dream team: 1 infectious cyst = 2 trophozoites. These sucker the intestine & then form more cysts that survive for months in cold water.
More info: cdc.gov/parasites/giar…
#SciArt #microbiology
A dream team: 1 infectious cyst = 2 trophozoites. These sucker the intestine & then form more cysts that survive for months in cold water.
More info: cdc.gov/parasites/giar…
#SciArt #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 26 - a #Shigella's sh*t show!
Bristling with ~5 needles to inject & hijack host cells, they also pack a punch with #Shiga #Toxin. The result? Cramps, bloody #diarrhoea & sometimes #KidneyFailure & death.
More info: ecdc.europa.eu/en/shigellosis…
#SciArt #microbiology
Bristling with ~5 needles to inject & hijack host cells, they also pack a punch with #Shiga #Toxin. The result? Cramps, bloody #diarrhoea & sometimes #KidneyFailure & death.
More info: ecdc.europa.eu/en/shigellosis…
#SciArt #microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 27 of my #PathogenPortraits - eeek it's #Schistosomes!
They BURROW into your skin from freshwater & lay eggs. That eventually causes lots of problems, depending where in your body they are...
More info: nhs.uk/conditions/sch….
#sciart #microbiology #bilharzia
They BURROW into your skin from freshwater & lay eggs. That eventually causes lots of problems, depending where in your body they are...
More info: nhs.uk/conditions/sch….
#sciart #microbiology #bilharzia
#Inktober2020 day 28 of my #PathogenPortraits - chillin' in chilled #poultry, but it's no chicken: it's #Campylobacter!
Kill it with fire. No, seriously, it doesn't tolerate anything over 48 degrees C. Cook it!
More info: who.int/news-room/fact…
#SciArt #Microbiology #diarrhoea
Kill it with fire. No, seriously, it doesn't tolerate anything over 48 degrees C. Cook it!
More info: who.int/news-room/fact…
#SciArt #Microbiology #diarrhoea
#Inktober2020 day 29 of my #PathogenPortraits- peckish #Pectobacterium!
Or 'carrot-eater'. It causes soft rot in many veg & slime flux in 🌳. The plant version of flesh-eating, it eats the pectin holding cells together.
More info:
wiki.bugwood.org/Pectobacterium…
#SciArt #PlantPathology
Or 'carrot-eater'. It causes soft rot in many veg & slime flux in 🌳. The plant version of flesh-eating, it eats the pectin holding cells together.
More info:
wiki.bugwood.org/Pectobacterium…
#SciArt #PlantPathology
#Inktober2020 day 30 of my #PathogenPortraits- how about some #Helminths? It's #Ascaris!
Ingest some eggs & you won't know much about it. If you're a really fab host though, you might end up so full of them you perforate!
More info: cdc.gov/parasites/asca…
#SciArt #Microbiology
Ingest some eggs & you won't know much about it. If you're a really fab host though, you might end up so full of them you perforate!
More info: cdc.gov/parasites/asca…
#SciArt #Microbiology
#Inktober2020 day 31 of my #PathogenPortraits - the grand finale, it had to be #Coronavirus, didn't it?
We're all living this one & it sucks balls. #HerdImmunity won't work. Let's hope a #vaccine will.
🤞🤞
More info: who.int/health-topics/…
#SciArt #Microbiology #pandemic
We're all living this one & it sucks balls. #HerdImmunity won't work. Let's hope a #vaccine will.
🤞🤞
More info: who.int/health-topics/…
#SciArt #Microbiology #pandemic
#inktober2020 is done... and it really cheered me up during my second bout of #COVID19 and unfun quarantine, so thankee for all your support. Due to popular demand, expect to see these #PathogenPortraits on #redbubble when I get a moment!
#sciart #microbiology #QuarantineLife
#sciart #microbiology #QuarantineLife
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