Today's talk now posted for my FAVOURITE topic:
How to study & learn clinical/medical #microbiology.
🧠What to know
🧠How we learn
🧠Free resources
🧠Motivation

🧵below & slides available free: tinyURL.com/LearningMicro

#IDTwitter #MicroMedEd #ASMCPEP #clinmicro #ASMClinMicro This talk expands on content from my ASM post from June.
asm.org/Articles/2021/…
... which outlined traits of experts & how we can use them to learn (eg. with visual tools):

👉These slides (summarized next) put this in the context of preparing for clin/med micro/ID exams.
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Let's talk about YEAST!

🤔What are they
🤒Which ones cause human disease
🧫How do we ID them in the lab
💊What are the treatment options (including mechanisms & resistance to anti-fungals)

#IDtwitter #MicroMedEd Yeast are a type of fungi (so are moulds&🍄).

"Yeast" isn't a taxonomic group, it describes how they appear. Single-celled like bacteria, but eukaryotic. (More here

https://twitter.com/cullen_lilley/status/1296206689788723201

)

Thanks Saccharomyces for your sourdough bread. (And my beer🍻)

nature.com/articles/nrmic…

🦠Pseudomonas🦠
= several species of important human pathogens, including 🥁 P.aeruginosa. 😱

Here's a little #IDtweetorial of this important genus for #IDTwitter #micromeded:

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧Taxonomy
⚡️Virulence factors
🤒Diseases
🧫Lab ID
💊Resistance
🧪Susceptibility testing

👇 TAXONOMY OF PSEUDOMONAS:

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧Gram➖ Gammaproteobacteria. The Proteobacteria (and even Gamma~) are very diverse.

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧Closely related to coliforms (eg E.coli).

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧12 species cause human disease

📘Adapted from Manual Clin Micro

🖥️More on Enterobacterales:

https://twitter.com/MicrobeNat/status/1283283485726146563