Got an interesting one.... #MicroSky #ClinMicro #IDsky

The colors on these Aspergillus were just so beautiful. The green one is Aspergillus flavus, and the tan one is Aspergillus terreus. The exudate on the A. terreus literally made it ✨️sparkle✨️. Fungus is so amazing ❤️ #IDsky #MicroSky #ClinMicro

These Proteus swarmed to look like flowers 🌻 perfect to ring in springtime. #IDSky #MicroSky #ClinMicro

Saw some beautiful cording today in the AFB lab 😍 #IDsky #MicroSky #ClinMicro

Saw some beauties this week! A red Serratia, a golden Chryseobacterium, a wavin' Proteus! #ClinMicro #MicroSky #IDSky

Who am I? #MicroSky #ClinMicro #IDSky

"This progress we've had is not inevitable, it is the result of sustained, ongoing, open-ended funding and collaboration." "Continued progress for human health is not natural. It will result or fail to result from human choices." youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?... 🧪🧫

ICYMI: On the classic game The Oregon Trail, pioneers faced constant threats—including disease. Many of those illnesses are still with us today. Learn about their impact and how they spread in our latest blog! https://buff.ly/3ClR0BA #infectiousdiseases #medsky

Companions in antimicrobial resistance: examining transmission of common antimicrobial-resistant organisms between people and their dogs, cats, and horses #IDSky #VetSky #AMRSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Bacillus spores mixed in with Nocardia. Cultured from a contaminated skin wound. #MicroSky #IDSky #ClinMicro

🥹Beautiful Serratia #MicroSky #IDSky #ClinMicro

Norovirus is on the rise, perfect time for this super cool study showing 2'FL can reduce norovirus replication in human intestinal organoids! Finally, is there a potential treatment for norovirus on the horizon? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #MicroSky #ClinMicro #IDSky #MedSky

All of these colonies are the same genus! They are all Pseudomonas! Pseudomonas can appear mucoid, dry/wrinkly, metallic, or regular depending on the isolate. There are even 2 oxidase negative species! Do you know which ones they are? 🧫🧪 #MicroSky #ClinMicro #IDsky

Happy Friday! Here are some funny-face neutrophils to start off the weekend 😊 🧪

Saw this colorful guy pop up on a B. cepacia selective agar (BCSA) plate from a CF patient. The way it changed the color of the agar was so cool! What fungi do you think it is? #MicroSky #ClinMicro

On this day in 1981, a landmark paper in NEJM described four patients with evidence of immunodeficiency associated with PJP pneumonia, disseminated CMV, and Kaposi sarcoma. The disease would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. Revisit the paper: nej.md/41iekKD #MedSky #IDSky

Pseudomonas rainbow 🌈 which flavor is your favorite? #MicroSky #ClinMicro

Excited for the next ASM journal club on molecular detection of lower respiratory tract infections next Tuesday! Looks like a great lineup of panelists and presenters! asm.org/webinars/vir... #Microsky #ClinMicro

This impressive guy grew out of a sputum! He looks and sounds menacing, turning the agar black and named Streptomyces badius. But he's likely harmless in this patient. A lit review showed it also protects strawberry plants and their bees from pathogens! 🍓🐝 #MicroSky #ClinMicro

Another outbreak - this time salmonella in SunFed cucumbers! If you have any please throw it away! #MicroSky #ClinMicro www.cdc.gov/salmonella/o...

Listeria outbreak from pre-packaged braised beef! :( www.cdc.gov/listeria/out... #MicroSky #ClinMicro

Bipolaris mourns spicifera is transformed Curvularia with Lars Westblade #WCM #SAPathology #UniAdelaide

🔬Tape Prep Tuesday! 🔬 🍄 Who am I? 🍄 #MicroSky #ClinMicro

🥕Shiga-toxin producing E coli outbreak in carrots! I had these in my fridge 😨. If you have them please throw them away! #MicroSky #ClinMicro www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbre...

Revisiting diagnostics: Immune markers to diagnose invasive pulmonary #aspergillosis @simonfeys.bsky.social et al www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119... (paywall) #IDSky #TxID

Laboratory detection of carbapenemases among Gram-negative organisms Patricia Simner, Johan Pitout, and Tanis Dingle 🤩 #ClinMicroReviews journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... (Paywall) #IDSky #MicroSky

This is the best description of microbial taxonomy I've ever seen in my life. (xkcd.com/3010/) #MicroSky

#IDsky #HIVsky #idmeded #meded #IDChalkTalks #IDSAMededCOP #TLR group: we have so many quick chalk talks that you can use with your learners on the round idsame.notion.site/ID-Chalk-Tal...

Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

A small, black colony was spotted on the hektoen plate of a stool culture. Upon subculture, it formed gunky, black colonies on hektoen agar and swarmed on a blood agar plate. What organism is it? 🦠🧫 #Microsky #ClinMicro

🦠 this is the best Gram stain I have ever seen!! 🐱 (Its been awhile so I dont remember what organism it was, but its too good not to share!) #Microsky #clinmicro

When life gives you mold, make penicillin 🍄🧫🔬 #microbiology #clinmicro