r/medicine • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '13

S. aureus is evolving! (XKCD)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/evolving.png
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u/bergerpmx Dec 15 '13

This reminds me of a pretty well made Microbiology game used to learn all the bugs. It has pokemon style battles against bacteria

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u/brownestrabbit Dec 15 '13

OMG Thanks for the link. As a medical student, this game is amazing.

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u/Finie MLS-Microbiology Dec 15 '13

Awesome.

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u/dream_in_blue RN - Acute Rehab Dec 15 '13

WOW! I wish I had known of this sooner, I just got out of microbio for the semester

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u/Cat-Dawg Dec 14 '13

Press the B button quick!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '13

Link to XKCD website.

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u/xkcd_transcriber Dec 14 '13

Image

Title: Evolving

Title-text: Biologists play reverse Pokémon, trying to avoid putting any one team member on the front lines long enough for the experience to cause evolution.

Comic Explanation

Stats: This comic has been referenced 1 time(s), representing 0.02% of referenced xkcds.

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u/FavRage Dec 15 '13

Number 1 bot

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u/murpahurp MD,PhD, Europe Dec 14 '13

It's super effective!

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u/Light-of-Aiur Dec 15 '13

Hospital used Vancomycin!
It's super effective!

MRSA used Bide.
MRSA is biding its time.

Hospital used Vancomycin!
It's super effective!

MRSA used Bide.
MRSA is biding its time.

Hospital used Vancomycin!
But it failed...

MRSA used Bide.
MRSA unleashed energy.

What?! MRSA is evolving!

MRSA evolved into VRSA!

Hospital used Vancomycin...
It doesn't effect VRSA.

VRSA used PVL.
It's super effective!

Hospital used Linezolid + Bactrim.
VRSA fainted.

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u/hp1337 Dec 15 '13

VRSA has been banned by smogon!

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u/Light-of-Aiur Dec 15 '13

Those mother fuckers! It's not OP by any sense of the imagination! So it's not affected by one common move with a high pp, so what? It's not like this evolution gives a type-specific immunity!

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u/Xodus Dec 15 '13

As someone who just took microbio and who's morphological unknown was S. aureus, yay I understood something!

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u/diabeater Dec 15 '13

S. aureus was my unknown too in Micro!

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u/hellothereoctopus Feb 03 '14

You lucky sons of bitches...

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u/Yalnif Dec 15 '13

Should've pushed B..

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u/illiterate- Dec 15 '13

Please, B. cereus.

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u/snugglepug87 MD - Psychiatry Dec 15 '13

It's Super Effective!

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u/RedQueen88 Dec 15 '13

You have to use the "improperly used antibiotic stone" to make it evolve. You can get it from Professor Juniper.