Hey Guys, Since My Previous Post On Morning Routines Was Very Well Received,  I Decided To Make A Night

fungal infectors by systems 

Sorry guys haven’t been updating much lately 

[17 Dec 2017] (i thought i’d posted but it’s not appearing? ):) so sorry for the lack of original posts all these months! school has been so tough & i’ve just completed my mid-sem assessments & it’s finally my break! can’t wait to unwind and catch up on my sleep ;-;

Micobacterium tuberculosis DX

Auramine-Rhodamine staining bacilli: fluorescent apple green (sensitive but not specific). If positive, do acid fast.

Acid Fast

Lowenstein-Jensen medium: aerobic, slow growing (2-3weeks)

PPD or Mantoux Test: measure 48-72h after. POSITIVE: >/= 5mm in VIH+ pts, >/=10mm in high risk population (IVDA, poverty, immigrants from high TB area, physicians, nurses), >/=15mm in low risk population

Positive indicates exposure, but not necessarily active disease.

Quantiferon-TB Gold Test: measures IF-gamma

Niacin producers

Catalase negative at 68° and catalase active at body T°

No serodiagnosis

Yesterday’s notes featuring actual winter sunshine!!

Listeria with tumbling motility (by Pathmass)

Listeria monocytogenes

Gram+, aerobic, motile rod, facultative intracellular, beta hemolytic on blood agar

Tumbling motility in broth (as seen in video)

Jet motility in cells by actin filament formation

Listeriolysin O (Beta hemolysin): pathogenic factor, facilitates it scape from phagosome before phagolysosome formation and “jets” into another cell.

Diseases:

Lysteriosis: asymptomatic or diarrhea. 

Lysteriosis in pregnant women septicimia, crosses placenta.

Granulomatosis infantisepticum: neonatal disease, in utero transmission, sepsis, diseminated granulomas and high mortality.

Neonatal sepsis and meningitis (3° most common cause) 2-3 weeks after birth (fecal exposure)

Septicemia and meningitis in immunocompromised pts

Meningitis in renal transplant pts, cancer pts

Clostridium tetani

Gram+, anaerobe, spore forming, motile, rod.

Neurotoxin: Tetanus Toxin blocks glycine and GABA and produces a SPASTIC PARALYSIS.

TETANUS

Opisthotonus

Risus  Sardonicus

Severe mucle spasm

Hi optom! I'm very new to the studyblr community and it's my first term of university. I was a straight A student in high school and i am not performing well in my classes. In fact... I'm doing terribly. About a B to B- average. I know I'm probably not the first to go through so I've been trying to find posts that help students cope with this. Resources. Helpful tips. Is there a tag you can recommend? Any posts that you've encountered/wrote that I could peruse? Thank you very much for any help!

Hey there, thanks for asking. This is actually a very common problem experienced by people as they progress from high school to university. 

The problem is that mediocre study techniques and a combination of natural ability may have gotten you straight As whilst in high school, but it’s just not going to cut it in university. Cracking down on yourself and sitting down for more hours isn’t going to make your grades much better; it’s just doing more of the same mediocre studying. 

So you basically need to read up on good studying techniques and actually apply them to your studies. 

Everything You Need to Cover To Succeed As A Student

I actually have a web directory of all my study tips which already lists all these links.

So because the problem you have at its base is most likely that you’re using high school level techniques to tackle university-level problems, you’ll need to find resources on all areas related to good studying. For some of these areas, I have a related post, but for the more generalised topics like procrastination, I haven’t yet put one out because if I do, I want to be certain that the post will be unique, useful and practical. 

Without further ado, here’s a list of all the tags/areas you should work through and evaluate whether you need to change your current study habits if you want to be a 4.0/HD student at university. 

Firstly, have a read of my recent answer about 20 Things You Can Do To Prepare for University, and click through to any of the parts of my 15-Part University 101 Series. 

Time management

Organisation (see Part 3 Studying and Part 8 Four Secrets from University and Part 11 Adapting to Uni Studying which covers how you can manage university workloads on the whole and specific changes to your studies you should make)

Motivation

Discipline / Staying Focused

Procrastination (see post by @samsstudygram​)

Study Methods (I’ve got one on the Blank Paper Method and the Cornell Method)

Exams (I’ve got a multi-part series in the works)

Study Materials (see Part 2 of my University Series for some tips)

Studying from Textbooks (see Part 12 How To Study From Textbooks in Uni which deals with this specifically)

Self Care (you can see my tag here of my own + useful curated posts)

Spaced Repetition (use Anki!)

Study Space (I have a masterpost with tips here)

Hope that helps! If you have a specific question about any areas then let me know! 

One possible cover design for The Book

Coming soon.

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