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Azithromycin to the Rescue!
Hakkekkyuchan
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A battle lost with pneumococcus, as the white blood cells are being surrounded, but then, Red Blood Cell AE3803 comes with a special delivery...
Fan comic - that's why there's so little text!
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This is an ages old comic you can find on my Tumblr too.
(See the end of the work for more notes.)
Notes:
This comic was inspired by me getting azithromycin to heal a pneumococcal infection and I researched how it works. Basically, lots of the antibiotic collects inside the granules of phagocytes (aka. macrophages and neutrophils) and then they de-granulate upon encountering bacteria and fuck them up. Degranulation in Cells at Work is represented with their weapons, hence they got cool new weapon! Azithromycin is a bacteriostatic which means that it causes them to stop reproducing and blocks their protein production. “Molecular machinery” refers to bacterial ribosomes, DNA and other components necessary for protein production. The pills I got were light blue, so I made the antibiotic into blue lightsabers because I can and it’s cool. This is very old art, so excuse the bad art style!
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