Let's All Be Fun-gi People
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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What do you call a fungi that makes music? A decomposer. What do you call this podcast? Amazing!
Join us this week with Dr. Niket Sonpal in which we review an evergreen topic, dermatophyte infections of the skin and how to diagnose, treat and manage them.
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| 0:00.0 | How much |
| 0:04.4 | space does a fungi need to grow? It turns out it needs as mushroom as possible. That's right, ladies and |
| 0:06.9 | gentlemen, we're going to be talking a lot about fungi and the reason why is because I'm a fun guy. |
| 0:17.3 | I know, I know those puns are very punny but again this week we're going to be talking a lot about fungi specifically tinia infections of the skin. |
| 0:22.1 | Now before we jump into this topic I want to highlight an amazing |
| 0:26.2 | invention and that invention is actually nice statin. Like many other antifungals and antibiotics, |
| 0:32.8 | Nystatin is a bacterial origin, |
| 0:35.2 | and it's the first successful antifungal medication. |
| 0:38.6 | It saved numerous countless numbers of lives. |
| 0:42.3 | It was isolated from streptomycis in 1950 by two |
| 0:46.8 | researchers Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown and they were doing |
| 0:51.5 | research at this little lab known as the Division of Laboratories and |
| 0:55.2 | research of the New York State Department of Health. |
| 0:58.0 | Hazen was a promising microorganism researcher and found this bug in the soil of a friend's dairy farmer. |
| 1:05.7 | She named it Streptomycis nurseii after Jackie nurse the wife of the farm's owner and her best friend. |
| 1:13.0 | Hazen and Brown then named the medication Nystatin. |
| 1:16.0 | You might be wondering where from? |
| 1:18.0 | Well, NYS, I love New York and New York State Health Department in 1954. |
| 1:24.0 | The discoverers patented the drug and then donated the $13 million in profits to fund |
| 1:29.8 | a similar research project to basically pay it forward. |
| 1:33.2 | Since then, it's been used to treat candidial infections of the skin, including diaper rash, |
| 1:38.0 | thresh, esophagial candidiasis and vaginal yeast infections, |
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