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Im becoming a nerd for microbiology since i started the class

Finish Your Antibiotics

I’m sorry, this isn’t Jojo at all but I think I’ve had it for today. As a pharmacy tech, I’m tired of hearing “Well, I started to feel better so I didn’t finish them.” I always knew this but now as a Molecular and Cellular Biology major, I not only know why but how. If you’re willing to heed my advice from the title, good; be on your way. If you need to know more, keep reading.

It’s widely known–to some extent–that not completing a regiment of antibiotics can result in resistant bacteria, or even super bacteria.

But in an infection, you already have resistant bacteria lurking. Not taking antibiotics doesn’t literally create resistant bacteria. So how, then, do the antibiotics take care of the resistant ones?

A lot of antibiotics aren’t bacterialcidal: They don’t actually kill them. Many inhibit growth by some mechanism depending if the bacterium is gram negative or gram positive. For example, penicillin inhibits growth by disrupting the formation of a peptidoglycan layer on gram positive bacteria. Others target the LPS layer on gram negative ones. This keeps the non resistant bacteria at bay. So what kills the resistant ones? Your immune system. Antibiotics buy time and energy for your immune system to recognize and destroy the resistant strains. Your immune system is intelligent in that sense and can form antibodies for new illnesses. It’s important to give your immune system this time because bacteria grow, mutate, and transfer genetic material at astonishing rates. If you wanted to look at a microcosm of the mechanics that go into evolution, you’ve got it with bacteria. 

There are three methods aside from binary fission in which they transfer genes (I won’t get into the minutia of the form of informational material): Transformation, transduction and conjugation.

In transformation, a bacterium can pickup lost genes from a ruptured and dead cell.

Transduction is a way to transfer information via a viral vector.

In conjugation, genes are transferred through something called a pilus: It’s a bridge between two cells that pipes a copy of the information from one cell to another receptive cell and is the only method that doesn’t involve killing either cells. Resistant bacteria like to give around that resistance information like they’re burning a CD for their friends.

So please finish your antibiotics if you’ve been given them. It doesn’t matter if you’ve started to feel better or even great. Finish them.

(Hey science people, If I’ve missed anything or even got something wrong, help me out. There’s obviously lengthy stuff I’ve left out but I think I got the basics).

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adulthood is just an endless stream of phone calls you don’t want to make but have to

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Dear The Walking Dead writers,

WHY. IS. MY. BABY. BOY. NEGAN. BEING. ATTACKED. BY. RICK. THE. PRICK. 

He doesn't deserve this hatred. He’s not evil just misunderstood. 

- Sincerely me

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I can't stand Gabriel

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7.01 | 8.01

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One of my favorite movies. ❤

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I’ve found in the life that everyone wants to hear the truth, but few wish to hear it to its full extent.

darencolbert  (via wnq-writers)

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Source: https://today.duke.edu/2017/02/creative-people-have-better-connected-brains

Check out @dailypsychologyfacts for more real psychology facts. 

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my mindset is changing and i just don’t want to be around certain things or people anymore

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Robert’s Rebellion was built on a lie. Rhaegar didn’t kidnap my aunt or rape her. He loved her. And she loved him. And Jon’s real name…his name is Aegon Targaryen. He’s never been a bastard. He’s the heir to the Iron Throne.  ★  t h e  d r a g o n  a n d  t h e  w o l f

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Dr. Seuss (via psych-facts)

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Customers who get angry when I read them their total cost are so compelling to me. Take charge of your narrative, Janice. Be the hero of your own story. You are the one who is purchasing $113.67 worth of adult zen coloring books, Janice. It’s not me you hate, Janice. It’s not me.

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Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.

Beau Taplin, Temples   (via themotivationjournals)