Who am I? 🦠

✔️I cause neonatal sepsis
✔️Ampicillin R ~60% (Europe)
✔️I ferment lactose (when I feel like it)

(Inspired by a great talk from Stephanie Hutchings today)

*Slight edit from earlier quiz

Popular myth: Learning styles. The idea that some people are “visual learners,” “auditory learners,” or “kinesthetic learners.”

Reality: It’s not a thing. There’s no empirical justification for its use in education settings.

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#idboardreview An outbreak of diarrhea among people who attended a catered lunch of beef, noodles, salad, cake. Median incubation period 10 hours & major sx watery diarrhea. Minimal vomiting or fever was reported. #idtwitter #meded #MedTwitter

Microbial Pursuit #121 🦠
I solved today’s #MicrobialPursuit puzzle! ✅
First Clue: I am a normal commensal of the gastrointestinal tract. In the setting of infective endocarditis, ...
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Antibiotics!

Which of the following is TRUE regarding linezolid?

Memories of our ECCMID escape room 😍 Hannah Pymont Laura Atkinson Stephanie Hutchings David Hettle

With RSV season now formally upon us, let’s learn a little bit about the virus! Here are 10 facts you may not know about RSV…

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Tanka Name the Disease
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#MedicineinBrief

Safari brought home
Pics of blue skies, herds that roam
Painful black chancre
Fever, jaundice, shaking chills
Fly bites transmit grievous ills