Microbiology: mnemonics, Baitisj-style

This post is primarily for medical students.

My brain doesn't work well with normal mnemonics, so I have to create sentences that use multiple letters from the organisms.

Aerobic bacteria:

Mona's heart and lungs need air.

• Pseudomonas
• Nocardia (cardia = heart)
• Mycobacterium (infest the lungs), good enough for me

Anaerobes:

Ana's mice fuse bacteria and robes together in her closet.

• Actinomyces
• Fusobacterium
• Bacteroides
• Clostridium

Obligate intracellular:

Outside, it was rilly cold and chlammy, so I went inside because I needed to ATPee with my rilly chlammy cox.
(needs host ATP)

• Rickettsia
• Chlamydia
• Coxiella

Facultative intracellular:

I listened in as the facultative French Legion pestered my nice salmon brood.

• Listeria
• Francisella
• Legionella
• Yersinia pestis
• Neisseria
• Salmonella
• Brucella

 Catalase-positive:

Because she was Aspergers at heart, Mona Ecolied (coiled) her candid list around her serrated cattle-staff instead of her helical book-holder.

• Aspergillus
• Nocardia
• Pseudomonas
• E. coli
• Candida
• Listeria
• Serratia
• Burkholder
• Helicobacter pylori

Urease-positive: (this is the only acronym that works for me.)

Struvite stones? PEe CHUKSS!

• Staph. epidermidis
• Proteus
• Cryptococcus
• H pilori
• Ureaplasma
• Klebsiella
• Staph. saphrophyticus

Encapsulated bacteria:

Jesus (GBS)! Mona klubbed HIs nice, pnew-ly-colied salmon capsule.

• Group B Strep
• Pseudomonas
• Klebsiella
• Haemophilus influenzae (type B)
• Neisseria meningitidis
• Strep. pneumoniae
• E. coli
• Salmonella