I had it mixed up. I thought Zackk was a MD, but Tobra was in Med School, but then I flipped flopped them :rofl:.

Oh well.

Just save me from disease :wtc:

 

stupid chank

 

Sraph grows in clusters, strep grows in chains which is what he apparently was talkng about. They are different species because they are different genetically, one of the ways this is manifested is in whether they grow in pairs, clusters, chains, but you already know that. No offense intended, but I would say you are looking at it sort of backwards, which threw me a bit. My intention was not to insult you, I hope that was not your intention either. The way they look on a slide after you do your gram stain is one of the ways you identify them. I have a microscope and the stuff to do gram stains and KOH preps(for fungal infections) in my office, but rarely do them. It is just not practical to do so, very rare for a doctor to do that in his office. My dumb ass still has all the stuff at the office, so I could if I had to.

I never took micro in undergrad, took it in Podiatry scool. The curriculum for the first two years of an MD degree and a DPM degree are essentially the same. When I went, we took one more anatomy course and one less psych course in the initial two years. I was dating a gal who was a year behind me in undergrad and went to UCSF med. She did not have to buy many books, two maybe. I just gave her all of mine.

In real life, you send it off for a culture and sensitivity. Just knowing if it is staph or strep is not enough, clinically. Yes, the infections they cause often give you a different appearance. Staph tends to give you yellowish pus, strep tends to have more watery drainage, anaerobes tend to smell foul with watery drainage, pseudomonas smells sweet, some, corynebacteria for example, flouresce when you hit them with a Wood's lamp(black light.) You can use this to start them on an appropriate broad spectrum antibiotic while you are waiting for your culture results.

The drug resistance in bacteria is due to a number of things. One of the infectious disease guys I know places the blame firmly on the overuse of quinolone antibiotics. They apparently induce resistant critters to flourish. I am more convinced that it is secondary to a lot of different things. Overuse of antibiotics, antibacterial soap, people not taking antibiotics as instructed, flushing antibiotics down the crapper.

To the guy with the friend who tends to get the staph infections. They are probably colonized with staph, pretty common for people to have this in their nostrils. the deal with this is you use anti bacterial soap in the shower, put bactroban(mupirocin) up your nose a few times a day using a Q tip. If they have a partner that they sleep with, both parties need to be treated.

Good luck in your studies Zack

 

I believe Tobra has a DPM, a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine. Slightly different than MD/DO but I'll have him fill in the details.

No offense taken. There have been many new findings in the past 5 years regarding shape of the bacterium affecting the biochemistry and species. I don't need to go into any more detail than this as its irrelevant. And thanks for the good luck. Take my MCAT later this summer. :x: