Howdy, I'm P. aruginosa.
I'm a gram negative bacteria.
But I'm not an Enterobacteriaceae like my friends before me.
You can call me a non-fermentative rod, meaning I don't ferment glucose.
You can mostly find me in hospitals
I can cause lots and lots of things in people!
In people with urinary catheters, I can cause UTIs.
In intravenous drug users and transplant patients, I can cause septicaemia.
If you have cystic fibrosis or are on a respirator, I can cause a respiratory infection.
I cause swimmer's ear, plus colonise skin ulcers, infections and burns, just to name a few!
I'm also very resistant to most antibiotics, so it's very hard to get rid me.
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This is great...I was thinking to myself this morning...There is not nearly enough germ blogs...then hello germ blog....I love germs i think most people need more... give me more germs.... i feel clean and hate it...make me dirty
thanks!!
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These are lovely - but can I request some non-pathogenic bacteria, too? I'm sure you wouldn't want to stereotype prokaryotes as all bad!
More about me!
This P. aeruginosa guy is very resisitant to antibiotics, because I was testing it in my micro class and he had little to none zone of inhibition! He's a stubborn one!!!
the name of the bacteria in the drawing it's not correctly written!!
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