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So did you manage to find them all? Here are the answers for all of you still struggling to find those last few pesky bacterial names! Hope you all had a good Christmas and a bit of a break from work (and Covid).
Best wishes for the New Year! Nuts & Bolts will be back week of the 10th January... see you then... For Christmas this year we've given you a fiendishly hard wordsearch. Hidden within these letters are the names of 20 bacterial species (NO, Covid-19 is NOT in this wordsearch) - can you find them all? If you can't do it, ask a colleague or your team, someone must be able to find them all... Merry Christmas! Above is the wordsearch without the word list if you are really wanting to make it tricky, otherwise the list is attached to the wordsearch below... answers after Christmas... P.S. Please don't phone your oncall Microbiologist for the answers, they don't have them either! You'll just have to be patient :-)
If you were a Little Miss or Mr Man who would you be? Little Miss Naughty or Little Miss Fabulous? Mr Bump or Mr Perfect? Or would you be one of the brand new Little Miss or Mr Men; Little Miss Brave or Mr Calm? The choices seem almost endless! I like to think I’m Mr Clever, but ECIC thinks I’m more like Mr Silly… thanks a lot Little Miss Trouble!
Okay, I’m not talking about the X-men, Wolverine, Rogue and Professor Xavier, let’s talk about mutations in viruses instead; Omicron is one such mutant…has anyone else noticed Omicron is an anagram of “moronic”? (Just me then hey!).
“We have a septic lady who has just returned from a trip to India. She also has a headache and diarrhoea. We think she might have typhoid but want to cover for meningitis as well as this. What do you suggest?”
The Microbiologist listened as the Emergency Department (ED) Consultant expanded on the story with where exactly the patient had been in India, what she had been doing there and what pre-travel vaccinations she had had. It was a great presentation and showed that the Consultant had clearly been listening to the teaching on fever in a returning traveller that the Microbiologist had given the week before! “Okay, she’s been to the North of India, we’d better cover for XDR typhoid as well as meningitis and other potential causes of sepsis. The best thing to do is start IV Meropenem 2g TDS, and if it’s not meningitis then we can reduce the dose to 1g later” replied the Microbiologist. “Isn’t IV Ceftriaxone the normal first line for typhoid?” asked the ED Consultant. “It is” replied the Microbiologist, “unless you have the XDR typhoid which is currently causing mayhem in Pakistan next to India, XDR is Ceftriaxone resistant and so you need Meropenem instead.” “Crikey!” exclaimed the ED Consultant, “long gone are the days when I could treat this with Ampicillin…I’m sure Typhoid Mary would have accepted Ampicillin!” “We all feel a little old these days, I find it’s more about the mileage not so much the years…!” said the Microbiologist. |
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