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Monday Microbe! 🧫🔬This urease- positive yeast is ready for spring with it's pretty coral/salmon colour. Who is it? Poll below 👇 #MicroRounds #IDMedEd #ClinMicroLab #PathTwitter

Morning from sunny Clearwater Beach! Escaping the pollen, and attending @thepascv annual meeting - nothing better than 2 days of great virology talks and fantastic clinical virology colleagues! #clinicalvirology #clinmicrolab

I’m terrible at taking notes so will be live-tweeting some of the best moments from #MVW23 @thepascv

@DrMattBinnicker navigating us through creating respiratory virus testing algorithms in the context of the pandemic. The use of antigen tests, point-of-care and self testing is only going to increase in coming years. #MVW23 @thepascv

@danrhoads with a great question for @DrMattBinnicker about the use of AI for quality monitoring in the clinical micro lab- this will be emerging over the next 5-10 years. Exciting! #MVW23 @thepascv #ClinMicroLab

Going into the long weekend, can we all just stop to appreciate the double-zones of hemolysis made by this lovely anaerobe? (Which anaerobe?) #MicroRounds #IDMedEd #ClinMicroLab #Pathpearls

We’re having a fun Microbiology Lab Week this year! Shoutout to all my medical laboratory colleagues who have been keeping things running behind the scenes through 2+ pandemic years. #LabWeek2022 #clinmicrolab #pathtwitter

Some of our micro themed baking contest entries: Top “LJ slant mousse”, Bottom Left “Not your average chocolate plate”, Bottom Right “Nucleotide Cake” So very yummy!

And the sugar overload continues with (clockwise) “Tasty Trek Tray”, “NOT C. diff brownies”, and “Gram Stain Sugar Cookies” #LabWeek2022 #PathTwitter #ClinMicroLab

Mid-week Microbe! Check out this Mr. & Mrs. Who are these newlyweds? Add your answer to the poll! Image in next tweet. #MicroRounds #ClinMicroLab @ParasiteGal @richdavisphd

Monday Microbe! 🔬This was spotted in the peripheral smear of an adult patient recently returned from West Africa. What are you seeing here? 🦠Poll below⬇️ #MicroRounds #ClinMicroLab

Celebrating Lab Week and the amazing laboratory professionals who provide patient care every day behind the scenes! #labweek2023 #PathTwitter #ClinMicroLab

Happy weekend! This critter is giving me phantom itches... but is it 🧢 👕 or 🩳? #MicroRounds #ClinMicroLab #IDMedEd

Pediculus humanus! This overly- friendly head-and-body louse has two subspecies P. h. capitis and P. h. humanus and are ectoparasites in humans. One 🧢 lives and feeds on the scalp, the other 👕lays eggs in clothing and feeds on the body. #MicroRounds #IDMedEd #ClinMicroLab

The also overly- friendly pubic louse Pthirus pubis lives on pubic hair 🌳🩳 and occasionally armpit, moustache and chest hair. How to tell them apart? P. humanus is longer, P. pubis is broader. #MicroRounds #IDMedEd #ClinMicroLab

Monday Microbe! This bacterium, seen on CDC agar was found in the blood culture of a patient with appendiceal perforation/abscess. Who is it? (poll below) How would you describe the hemolysis? #MicroRounds #clinmicrolab

Monday Microbe! This dematiaceous mold is ubiquitous in the environment but has been known to cause subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis. The distinctive appearance tells you it is… (choose your answer in poll below 👎) #MicroRounds #ClinMicroLab #PathTwitter

Mid- week Microbe! This organism is a Gram positive coccus. Check out the susceptibility of Vancomycin in the picture! What is your shortlist of possible organisms? (Who can name them all? 😆) #MicroRounds #clinmicrolab

Mr. Ampicillin is getting amped for Lab Week! Are you?! April 24-30 #medlabweek2022 #LabWeek #ClinMicroLab #AST

Here’s a Mid-Week Microbe 🦠 for you! Can you identify these carmine colonies?? 🧫🧫 #MicroRounds #ClinMicroLab #IDMedEd #pathresidents #bacteria

Amblyomma americanum! Aka Lone Star Tick. The lady on the left and the gentleman on the right. See the characteristic festoons, ‘eye’ markings, the ornate scutum, with the white ‘lone star’ ⭐️marking on the female.

Amblyomma ticks in the US are vectors for ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and STARI (southern tick- associated rash illness). Also, in some individuals, bite from this tick can lead to development of an allergy to meat/meat products. 🥓🥩 #MicroRounds #clinmicrolab

Monday Microbe! This bright yellow organism, a Gram positive coccus, appearing in irregular clusters and tetrads, usually a nonpathogenic member of human skin flora. Typically catalase positive, coagulase negative. Can you recognize this organism? Poll below 👇 #IDtwitter

Which organism am I? (Pictured above) #IDTwitter #ClinMicroLab #PathTwitter