Yeah, sure that plush Borrelia burgdorferi (the bacterium that causes Lyme disease) is playfully cuddling the plush penicillin now. But can their friendship last?
(Actually, in light of the fact that penicillin inhibits transpeptidase in gram-positive bacrteria, and of the fact that Borrelia burgdorferi is gram-negative, maybe those two love-sick kids can make it work.)
Uttered by Dr. Free-Ride's better half upon extracting the plush penicillin from the Christmas stocking: "I'm going to have to keep that away from my syphilis!"
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CUTE! Santa must have know how good you were last year - congrats. We all look forward to you being just as good in 2010.
Love that!
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I enjoyed my fuzzy Giardia lamblia until my dog got ahold of it. Boy was that ugly.
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Happy New Year!