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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

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