Incubation period of dengue virus is 3-10 days
How to remember this with all so many incubation periods in community medicine?😢
so the solution is in its name:
DENgue
so DEN rhymes with ten
and look at the E in it, flip it and you get 3
so 3-10 days
and that's it 🙈
Allah Hafiz!
Here's an illustration on pseudomonas for the desi students studying microbiology!
STORY OF PSUEDOMONAS :
Here is you're friend , Psuedomonas
I am pink in colour __ gram negative
I have a long red hair __ flagella
I don't have an additional jacket __ non capsulated
I live on oxygen mask __ obligate aerobe
I play Holi everyday with red , green brown and blue _ pyorubicin , pyoverdin , pyomelanin, pyocyanin.Pigments produced by psuedomonas
My Diet chart __ biochemical reactions and culture media
Biochemical diet _
• Oxidase ka Bartha __ oxidase test positive
• Hugh leifson soup __ hugh leifson media __ glucose oxidation
• Cata cola __ catalase reaction positive
Culture diet _
• Nutrient shake _ In nutrient broth forms surface pellicle ( obligate aerobe)
• Nutrient cake __ nutrient agar _with green / blue colonies , sweet odor
• Red currant cake __ blood agar __ beta hemolysis
• Yellow McConkey sauce __ McConkey agar __ yellow colonies ( doesn't belong to enterobactericea )
• Cetrimide karela fry __ selective medium for psuedomonas __ cetrimide agar
-Shreya HA
Hi!
Lyme's disease/ Lyme borreliosis
A patient with a typical history of frequent visits to the woods with bull's eye rash, neurologic features, cardiac abnormalities, and musculoskeletal features.
Hi!
Penicillins such as amoxicillin and ampicillin are currently not recommended in patients with infectious mononucleosis with bacterial secondaries (streptococcal tonsillo-pharyngitis). Why?
The worldwide magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic is ineffable; it is unsurprisingly compared to the Spanish flu pandemic, which ravaged the world during the First World War (adding fuel to the fire!). One of the pandemic's various positive impacts has been the unprecedented research collaboration and data sharing across the world. Such singular efforts made it possible to cut down the usual time to achieve an approved vaccine from 10+ years to less than a year.
To put things into perspective, it took 60 years from the
time of the first polio outbreak to developing its vaccine; in the case of
Ebola, it took 15 years. Vaccine candidates for SARS-CoV-1 and MERS did not receive
the necessary impetus to advance into fruition. However, with SARS-CoV-2, the
situation is very different. Global initiatives such as ACTIV (Accelerating
COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines), a public-private partnership
comprising of bigwigs like CDC, FDA, EMA (European Medicines Agency), and
numerous leading biopharmaceutical enterprises. Another project on a similar
scale is Operation Warp Speed, which has invited comparison to the infamous
Manhattan Project.
What is an "ideal" COVID-19 vaccine? There are
three criteria from the immunological perspective: 1) It induces a robust humoral
immune response that produces long-lasting neutralizing antibodies against
SARS-CoV-2 antigens, 2) It generates a strong cell-mediated immunity that
includes the production of memory T cells, 3) It should be free of any serious
local or systemic adverse effects. Considering the logistics of vaccinating the entire world, there are three more criteria: 1) It should be easy to administer,
preferably in one or two doses, 2) It should be easy to produce on a
large-scale, 3) Its storage should be uncomplicated, ideally possible at room
temperature.
Let us discuss the vaccines that are currently in
development. We all have heard about a few of them in the news and social media,
namely, Pfizer, Moderna, Covaxin, Astra Zeneca, and so on. There are,
impressively, 125+ SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development globally. Broadly,
there are six platforms currently being utilized for vaccine development –
3. Protein (Subunit vaccines)
4. Viral vector – replicating/non-replicating
(examples - Oxford/Astra Zeneca, Johnson & Johnson)
5. Live attenuated virus
6. Inactivated virus
Almost all of the above models have targeted the spike glycoprotein,
which is present on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, to interfere with the viral
entry into a cell.
This article is an oversimplified summary of the vaccine development process. I haven't covered the vaccine platforms, molecular targets, and vaccine candidates in detail. With the advent of vaccine administration, whether it's Pfizer's or any other, there will be a massive surge in vaccine-related information. There will be challenges at every step, from distribution to underdeveloped areas of the world to alleviate the concerns of the skeptical anti-vaxxers. Let us hope that these vaccines start the end of the pandemic.
-Vinayak
TORCH syndrome is caused by congenital infection by a group of infectious agents.
Why are moxifloxacin, gemifloxacin, and levofloxacin also known as respiratory fluoroquinolones?
