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DAY 24 // ZOONOTIC
Never trust a flea 😒

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22 - Persistance!

The real persister here is YOU! Microbiology is a hard line of work with a lot of failures - failed experiments are a part of science. But you keep going for it and that's amazing! Go you!

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The Bacteria Collection: Pyrococcus furiosus (5/8) ✨

Day 16 of the list.
Prompt: Extremophile

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Day 21- Plasmid. These rings of DNA are often shared among bacteria, and are a major contributor to the spread of antimicrobial resistance! Hence, one plasmid to resist them all...

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20: LUMINESCENCE

Yes, there are luminescent pathogens too... Vibrio harveyi causes luminescent vibriosis in farmed shrimp. This may involve widespread necrosis in their appendages, but what a pretty colour!

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18: MOTILITY

Proteus is a catheter opportunist with a bullseye motility pattern, due to cycling btw vegetative & swarmer states. A switch to swarming causes massive elongation, many more flagella & all the nasties!

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DAY 18 // MOTILITY
A classic motility assay, but cute-ified 🥰

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🖌️🦠 Day 16. This extremophile is more than ready for the cold weather🦠🖌️❄️

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14: CHEMOTAXIS

Helicobacter uses chemotaxis to swim towards some tasty sugars on the lining of the stomach, and finds its home there for life

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DAY 14 // CHEMOTAXIS
A little bug who is all for that sugar rush 🍭🍫🍩

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12: DIVISION

In their infectious form, these brain-eating amoebae can divide without breaking up their nuclear membrane, in a process called promitosis.

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The Bacteria Collection: Clostridium tetani (2/8) ☄️

This was day 6 of the list. Prompt: Sporulation.

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12 - Wall!

The cell wall protects a bacterium and is mostly responsible for its shape. Penicillin is an antibiotic that interferes with cell wall construction enzymes and causes the cell to lyse.

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DAY 12 // WALL
Who doesn’t love a good ol’ Gram stain?

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11 - Streaking!

When bacteria are treated with lysozyme and penicillin, they can go into an L-form state in which they don’t have a cell wall.

This is a cheap joke and I know it but I could not help myself. I giggled while making it.

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10: DEFENCE

As their defence, Bordetalla pertussis attacks our immune defences in the lungs, so the airways don’t produce mucus. This causes the coughs to make a characteristic whooping sound

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2021-10-10

I'm not managing to catch up with but I'm going to throw previously created piece for to support lovely everyone is doing 💙
Day 10 is for 'defense' and what better describes it than CRISPR-Cas immunity stages🎨

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Inktober/Microber 2021 Day 9 Niche 👻🦠
A niche defines how a species interacts with its environment. E. g., some bacteria can tolerate specific agents harmful to other species giving them an advantage in this niche.

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