Song sheets for musical microbiolgy
Here are lyrics for the songs sung in Helen C. Davies's microbiology class at University of Pennsylvania.
Here are lyrics for the songs sung in Helen C. Davies's microbiology class at University of Pennsylvania:
Positive Cocci
Positive cocci are: the Strep, the Staph, and Enterococcus
Negative cocci are: Meningo and the Gonococcus
Positive rods: Listeria, and anaerobic Clostridia
Leaving negative rods plus intracellular Rickettsia and Chlamydia
Cephalosporins, Penicillin
'Cidal drugs that do the killin'
'Static: Tetra, Mino, Doxy
Use Clavulanic acid with Amoxi
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic / Arranged by H. Davies, 1989
Streptococci
Streptococci cause otitis, pharyngitis,
Cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis.
But the delayed sequelae
Should make DOC a nervous Nellie
Rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis.
To: She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain When She Comes / Arranged by H. Davies, 1970
Staphylococci
Staphylococci can be epi or aureus
Coagulase positive is the one that's most injurious
(That's aureus)
They've got plasmids, phage and toxins
And if you bought and still have stocks – in
Rely Tampons, you were stuck and should be furious.
To: She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain When She Comes / Arranged by H. Davies
Gonococci for the Women
Gonococci / can cause cervicitis
Urethritis and vulvovaginitis
And the ominous omen
Of a pain in the abdomen
Can be P.I.D. salpingo oophoritis.
Gonococci for the Men
Let's not clap for the gonococcus named for Neisser
Which infects when to your life you add some spice-sir.
Prostatitis, urethritis,
And epididymitis
You can get it many times, not once or twice-sir.
To: She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain When She Comes / Arranged by H. Davies
Chlamydia
Chlamydia grow in epithelial phagosoma.
Cause psittacosis, pneumonia, and trachoma
And P.I.D. * which hurts the belly
As well as Bubo inguinale
Due to venereum lymphogranuloma. To: She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain / Arranged by H. Davies
Typhoid Fever
"Cooking," Typhoid Mary said, "is my means of self expression.
So I earn my living practicing the gourmet cook's profession.
Is it not unfair therefore to take away my ladle?
Of the fifty one infected, only three of them were fatal."
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic / Arranged by H. Davies, by way of a poem
Other Gram Negatives
Brucellosis: true farmer's diseases.
Caught from cattle, swine, and goats and from their cheeses !
Skinning rabbits: Francisella !
Dog- or cat- bites: Pasteurella !
While Yersinia causes plague through rats and fleas
To: She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain When She Comes / Arranged by A. Cohen, 2/28/96.
Popeye and His Spinach
He's Popeye the sailor man.
Eats spinach as much as he can.
Now his gut is polluted,
His lining denuded.
His insides flushed right down the can!
The spinach's impure.
The source is obscure.
Too much flooding all over the land?
Waters from sewers
With floating manures?
"No raw spinach!" MDs demand.
Sandwiches, pastas, and salads
No spinach!
As toxins MDs understand.
The farmers are crying.
As folks have stopped buying
Raw spinach for fear of the brand!
He's Popeye the sailor man.
Eats spinach now out of a can.
Hemolytic – Uremic, Thrombócytopenic,
E. Coli O 1 5 7 - H 7!
To: He's Popeye the sailor man, Arranged by Emilie Anderson and H. Davies, 2006
Leprosy,
Bits and pieces falling off of me
But it isn't the toxicity
It's just neglect of injury
Suddenly,
I'm not half the man I used to be
Can't feel anything peripherally
From swollen nerves, hypersensitivity
Why don't leprae grow in vitro we cannot say
In vivo they grow very slow, once in 12 d....a.....ys
Hard to get,
But the stigma hasn't faded yet
Don't keep an armadillo as a pet,
Clofazimine and Dapsone, Don't forget.
To the tune of: Yesterday / Arranged by J. Sadinoff, 1989
Tuberculosis
Recent converter had a PPD.
Big induration, consistent with TB.
Treat with INH and RMP,
Add PZA and EMB.
TB is acid-fast,
Has wax and cords.
Can be airborne in wards.
Toreadora don't spit on the floora.
Use the cuspidora. Whatta ya think it's fora.
The bacilli multiply in cells.
Form a granuloma which swells.
Weight loss and night time sweats
Cough, anergy
X-rays will show TB
To Chanson de Toréador, Bizet / Arranged by A. Auslander and H. Davies, 9/26/95
Tick-Spangled Banner
Oh say can you see?
What just crawled up your knee.
A black legged tick
And it's on your body
Now you should go and check
With the brightest of lights –
Cause the symptoms it spans
Include Erythema migrans
From the spirochetes's might
You're not feeling quite right
It feels like a flu
From that Ixodes bite
Oh if only you had tweezed that tick when you got home
Then of Lyme you would be free
No ache in joints of the bone.
To: The Star-Spangled Banner / Arranged by Lara Roman, H. Davies and E. Anderson
Congenital Infections
At first I was afraid, because I had a cat.
I had heard of Toxoplasma and other things like that.
I spent so many nights thinking "I can't be a mom".
But I was wrong, and learned 'how to get along.
Tossed out the cat and washed my hands.
My doctor told me all the things I need to understand:
"Watch out for TORCHS, now your EPT turned blue,
Toxo, Rubella, CMV, HIV and Syphilis too."
Stay in good health and get your shots.
This is the best way, to make sure that you have healthy tots.
IgG can cross placentas, IgM cannot get through.
For diagnosis, this is a clue.
So, my child, you will survive.
As long as you know how to care, you will stay alive.
You have all your life to live, with the care you have to give.
You'll survive, you will survive. Hey! Hey!
To: I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor / Arranged by S. Kim, Dec 1996
No Paens for Prions
Suf'ring from motor deterioration
After a 28-year incubation?
Memory loss-where did I put my keys?
These are the symptoms of prion disease!
Let's say that you are a young British herder
You love to drink, and to swear bloody murder
If a mammalian prion draws nigh
How do you know if your livestock will die?
Cows become nervous, and sheep will get bitchy
Rub against fence-posts because they are itchy
Scrape off their coats so that they can't keep warm
That's what you get when your brain's spongiform!
They're sporadic
They're infectious
Or they come from genes
Stan Prusiner's Nobel Prize is richly deserved
Please find Prion vaccines !!
To: My Favorite Things, The Sound of Music / Arranged by Etan Rosenbloom, 4/2002
Dengue
Dengue, you Arbovirus
Borne by mosquitoes – when there is plenty of rain.
Swollen lymph nodes, joints and bones with terrible pains.
Hemorrhagic fever from one of three other Dengue strains.
To: Hey Jude! by the Beatles / Arranged by H. Davies, 1999
Influenza
Changing Influenza virus'
Eight strands of RNA
Causes antigenic drifts and shifts
Yearly shots keep flu away.
Influenza, type 'A, B, or C
Hemagglutinin, Neurominidase,
Keep those (#$%^) avians away from me!
To: Oh Susanna / Arranged by H. Davies and E. Anderson, 1994, 2005
Herpes Simplex 1 and 2
Hello Herpes our old friend.
Will be with us 'til the end.
'Cause the virus softly creeping,
Left its genes while we were sleeping
Not integrated into our genome,
It'll roam, that episome.
The DNA of Herpes
Herpes simplex 1 and 2
Will forever be with you
On our gums, lips, eyes, or down there too
And there isn't much that we can do
But there is Acyclovir to help
And we'll want help
From Herpes hurting you
"Fools," say I "you must beware!"
Herpes simplex's everywhere
Symptomatic or in the ganglia
Caught in New York or in East Anglia
It will be latent
And reoccur when times are bad
And you'll be had
When Herpes comes for you
To: Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel / Arranged by B. Glatt and H. Davies, 1991, 1997
Legionnaire's Disease
And here's to you, Legionnaire's Disease,
With Gram stain it is hard for us to know (woa, woa, woa)
If patients have, Legionnaire's Disease,
Lungs are where those Gram negs need to grow
(woa, woa, woa, woa, woa, woa)
Pneumophila cause pneumonia in the sick or elderly,
From water towers, 'n spray from showers
Azith'romycin is the drug we know works best,
We have a urinary antigenic test,
That works for group 1, Legionnaire's Disease,
Biofilms are where you're going to stay (hey, hey, hey)
When not in humans, Legionnaire's Disease,
Is in amoebas where it likes to prey
(hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey)
Hiding in a macrophage where few things have ever grown
Living inside a smoker's alveolar phagosome
Laugh about it, shout about it, lysosomes can't fuse,
With cell wall beta-lactams patients tend to lose,
So here's to you, Legionnaire's Disease,
In residential waters where you grow,
(woa woa woa)
So here's to you, Legionnaire's Disease,
You've harmed Philly more than you can know
(woa, woa, woa , woa, woa, woa)
To: Mrs. Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel / Arranged by N. Zwang and H. Davies 10/2002, 10/2005
Immunization
First shot for newborn, is Hepatitis B
In two months, HiB and DPT
At a year, Mumps, Measles, 'n Rubella
Three months later, Anti-Varicella
Your best bet for a healthy little fella.
To: She'll be comin' round the mountain; by H. Davies4/2007
Nosocomial
Docs wash your hands please!
Cover up coughs and sneezes.
Don't pass M.R.S.A. or Noro.
Scrub off C. diff. Please, be thorough!
I want to wish you a healing life
Without Rota, V.R.E. No strife.
I want to warn you of plasmid genes
Which infect when hands ain't clean.
I want to wish you cool fellowships,
Sterile scalpels, perfect I.V. drips.
I want to wish you to understand.
So, please, just wash your hands!
To tune of Feliz Navidad/ Arranged by Emilie Anderson and Helen Davies10/2006
Hey there Delilah
Hey there Delilah
You've been sleeping 'round the city
Lots of unprotected sex
Has left you feeling not so giddy
It's plain to see
That now you're facing HIV
Unfortunately
Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry 'bout Kaposi's
HAART will keep the virus
From getting all that cozy
Latency
It'll be ten years before you see
Some CMV
ChorusNow she's got HIV
Now she's got HIV
Now she's got HIV
Now she's got HIV
She's got HIV
Hey there Delilah
There are some in different places
Caught the virus in different ways
Now their cells are all infected
Oh what a pain
Semen, blood, and breast milk all contain
The viral strain
Hey there Delilah
Keep on checking your CD4
Cause if it drops below two fifty
AIDS is knocking on your door
It's hard to say
Maybe a vaccine is on its way
But not today
Chorus Now she's got HIV etc
RT and then integrase
And don't forget the protease
These enzymes make the retrovirus spread
To lymphoids it disseminates
For ten years it will "hibernate"
'til viral load exceeds immunity
Delilah I can promise you
That without HAART your days are through
Adherence more than 95 percent
It just makes sense
Hey there Delilah
Tell your friends how to prevent this
A condom used and no more needles shared
And you'll be changing history, oh you could
Rapid test entire neighborhoods
Get rid of the AIDS virus, you would
Hey there Delilah, hope you should
Chances are good
Chorus Now she's got HIV
To the tune of "Hey There Delilah" Alex Hirsch and H.Davies