9/9/2023 0 Comments Lenina thought train![]() This Streptococcus pneumoniae has changed, too. Under certain selective pressures she had changed. However, she stares at the black and white picture in her kitchen, above her sink. Typhoid and sleeping sickness continue to enter her dreams-she is still a product of her past. ![]() Streptocock P, as she lovingly refers to it, is her life now. One can only guess that this was her true destiny…as pneumatic as she was, or used to be. She drifted and landed in a contributing laboratory for the Pneumococcal Molecular Epidemiology Network. ![]() Her past belief in being able to control all variables, including microbes, fissured when the illusion of Ford and her world ended after John’s tragic death. Her co-workers find her smart, but a little strange most of the time. Sometimes she would be so distraught at work that she would repeat unintelligible nursery rhymes. All infectious diseases should just go away certainly there was a way to either annihilate or prevent them. However, "Sterilization is civilization" remained her mantra throughout both worlds. When Lenina was first forced to rethink vaccination in her newer world she had to get over the fact that infants and the elderly were targeted. The summary was sitting on her desk at work, in the laboratory. ![]() The meeting would cover the history and evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae, in general, and the 40 year history of the PMEN-1 clone, specifically. Oddly enough, her role at the meeting is to summarize the history of Streptococcus pneumoniae prior to her group’s latest bit of information. Not that this was the main reason for the headache, but an important meeting was being held today to launch the Pneumococcal Molecular Epidemiology Network’s new paper in Science. Today is January 28, and Lenina has a smashing headache she is a Streptococcus pneumoniae researcher. ![]()
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