USMLE Microbiology mnemonics

yes frank may brush sally list’s legs

yersinia
franciscella
mycobacterium tb
brucella
salmonella
listeria
legionella

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RNA viruses: negative stranded
"Always Bring Polymerase Or Fail Replication":
Arena
Bunya
Paramyxo
Orthomyxo
Filo
Rhabdo

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DIMORPHIC FUNGI HAVE HSBC BANK
HISTOPLASMOSIS,
SPOROTHRIX
BLASTOMYCOSISI
CRYPTOMYCOSIS

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DNA viruses

HHAPPPy
Herpesviridae
Hepadnaviridae
Adenovirus
Papova
Poxviridae
Parvovirus

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DNA naked virus

PAP smear you need to be naked

Papova
Adenovirus
Parvovirus

All DNA viruses have a double strand DNA, except Parvovirus

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RIP A Rest In Pace Always ( For killed viruses in vaccination)

Rabies
Influenza
Polio
A Hepatitis

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pseudomonas aerginosa..

BOUSE COP
b-urn/wound patients
o-steomyelitis
u-ti
sepsis
endocarditis
corneal ulceartion
otitis media
pneumonia

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staph aureus is like soft pains - this i did not make up

skin infection
osteomeylitis
foodpoisioning
toxic shock syndrome
pneumonia
acute endocarditis
impetigo
necrotizing fasiculitis
scalding skin syndrome

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pastor- pasteurella
sells- cellulitis
amazing- amoxicillin
cats- cat scratch dz
resting- resp dz
on
limbs- lymphadenitis

pasteurella multicoda

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bruce -brucella
and his
neice- neisseria
were
pseudo -pseudomonas
bored- bordtella
so they
met-mycobacterium
fran -franciella
and
nancy-nocardia
back-bacillus cereas
at the
lake- legionella

obligate aerobes

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bugs that cause food poisoning……

salman -salmonella
basically- bacillus cereus
stays- staph aureus
in the
closest- clostridium botulinum
closet- clostridium perfringens
because he
echoes- e.coli
vibrance- vibrio