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#Inktober2020 of my #PathogenPortraits - the neglected & very tropical #Leishmania!
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There are >20 species that cause cutaneous (skin), visceral (mostly liver & spleen) & mucosal leishmaniasis via sand fly bites.
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More info: https://t.co/mEaYLOPybf
#sciart #microbiology #NTDs
#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: https://t.co/OJQ2AYuc1r
#sciart #microbiology #typhi #iNTS
#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: https://t.co/vmXn6LUpj7
#SciArt #Microbiology #Scicomm
@markowenmartin #Inktober2020 day 11 of my #PathogenPortraits- #microbiology meets #entomology, it's #malaria!
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A Plasmodium sporozoite will morph into many forms, each adapted to the liver, blood, & getting into another female mosquito.
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More info: https://t.co/fWKyeF4S1j
#SciArt
#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: https://t.co/fsFsDFCwA6
#sciart #microbiology
(great suggestion @markowenmartin!)
#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: https://t.co/teKdf2kVrM
#sciart #Microbiology #HAT #tryps #SOS
#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: https://t.co/UjnSQQOVAU
#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: https://t.co/XKM9PYmKVR
#sciart #microbiology #scicomm #HAIs
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 @
https://t.co/bxZGkUjhul
#sciart #microbiology
@BristolBiochem @nationalpostdoc Dawww thankee! 🥰