Nico Cortes-Penfield MD FACP FIDSA 🦴💊 Profile picture
Asst. Prof in ID @UNMC via @BCMHouston. views=mine; he/him @cortes_penfield@mstdn.social
Jun 28, 2024 16 tweets 2 min read
The debate is going to be awful so I’m going to live-tweet useless ID trivia that’s wormed itself into my brain over the years (get it?) First up, Gram+ bacteria resistant to vancomycin: Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, Leuconostoc, and Erysipelothrix.

Easy to remember as they happen to be the bacteria traditionally used to ferment Belgian sour ales… and also erysipelothrix