@marilynthescientist: Throat felt funny. Swabbed myself and found out that Strep pyogenes was TEARING THE F*CK OUTTA MY THROATHOLE. 😭🦠 This Petri dish? FULL of the bacterial menace behind what we all know as Strep Throat. Strep pyogenes (aka Group A Streptococcus) is the #1 cause of strep throat. It releases a lineup of biochemical weapons like: Gram-positive cocci in pairs and chains. Catalase negative. A disk sensitive (bacitracin) 🧨 Streptolysin O & S – destroys red and white blood cells (hello, white pockets in your throat and tonsils) 🧬 M protein – helps it dodge your immune system 🔥 Pyrogenic exotoxins – the reason your throat feels like a fire pit 🧫 Hyaluronidase & streptokinase – breaking down tissues and causing you pain. This is what it looks like in the lab! Yellow gray-ish beta-hemolytic colonies on blood agar, DESTROYING and lysing the red cells in the agar. So if your throat feels like it’s been on fire… get swabbed, fam. It might be this bacterial demon. 📱DM me the word “PASS” on Instagram to pass your ASCP Exam 🧪🥼
what do you even do at this point? "hey doc so I know for a fact I have strep throat. like for sure for sure. give me those antibiotics"
2025-08-26 22:48:41
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TaShay🔥 :
My mom is a veteran and gets all her treatment at the VA. When I was about 16, she got strep and went to the doctor to get tested for the diagnosis, the lady asked me if I wanted to see what she could see and when I got over there she’s like “you see all that white sht back there?”😭
2025-08-26 17:38:01
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AmorèE91 :
I remember catching strep and the flu at the same time! Thought I was dying 😩😩😩
2025-08-27 16:07:19
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pitr :
i got a sever flu and i was so delirious that i gaslit myself into thinking i had cancer💔
2025-08-29 02:49:28
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Built by Mill :
Group A strep, Catalase negative, Coagulase negative, Bacitracin sensitive, PYR positive
2025-08-27 02:59:12
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Jime (Han's gf) :
se tomaba una muestra para orocultivo solita, que genia 🤭🤭
2025-08-29 03:11:31
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Krishuna | God | MoM :
Now a culture sensitivity to find out what antibiotics
2025-08-28 06:13:00
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my_way_now :
I remember how to do that too
2025-08-28 13:08:13
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GabrielleLia_ :
I remember when I had strep but my sister told everybody I had mono 🙄🤣
2025-08-28 01:43:01
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Chocolate Rah 🍫🌻 :
Did you use a blood agar plate to streak?
2025-08-28 00:45:55
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Sincerely, Zoie Thee Scientist :
This is so me coded 😂 will be saving the trip to the doctor and doing this in my lab instead 😂
2025-08-28 04:17:15
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arbab_hassan™✓ :
o ma god that jet 2 holiday sound again 😑 ✨ 😂
2025-08-28 19:36:15
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Rõÿãł Ñęvä :
my bf caught it when he was young and didnt say anything until it was too late. Now he has a 3rd valve in his heart and body breakouts because of it
2025-08-27 23:22:38
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kk&c🫀. :
the way my jaw dropped.
2025-08-28 00:13:58
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munchiie_1738 :
I remember going to the ER for strep and ended up finding out that I was pregnant all in one night
2025-08-28 03:49:03
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duckiebabe67 :
I had strep throat once in my early 20’s and it was so painful!!!!
2025-08-28 06:06:21
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buschhlattee :
Don’t scare me rn. I been playing with plates in lab, now my throat is sore🥲
2025-08-28 00:24:51
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LoLo 🦋 :
Strep as an adult feels like absolute HELL
2025-08-28 03:36:45
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kvybve :
This is exactly what we do in microbiology lab, except it’s a damn simulation online!!!!!! I wish we did this in person
2025-08-28 05:53:17
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Kierra :
This was me two years ago. I thought I had an allergic reaction to pineapple….and three days later they told me it was strep throat
2025-08-28 03:17:06
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Rozai🌹 :
Me watching with covid
2025-08-27 03:00:57
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Ja'Nasha Lee :
I remember when I had strep and an ear infection in both ears
2025-08-28 02:35:41
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Naida’Muse✨ :
Strep beta hemolytic
2025-08-26 15:32:16
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ParsleyNewts :
Me just loookibg at your streak technique 😭😭
2025-08-26 04:04:24
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Nana Yaa Amankwaa Tabury :
Girl I took a swab and it was positive for strep too😭😭😭😭
2025-08-26 08:55:15
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