#laboratory Trending Posts - CTPtalk

10 months ago

Rare sights in the labs Well, well, well. What do we have here? It's not often you see something like this at work. In fact, I would say it's rare to even comes across such a patient specimen. The…

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11 months ago

Diphtheria today A recent development at work is identifying all (possible) Corynebacterium in a culture. By recent, I mean within the last 12 months. For the most part, these gram positive…

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12 months ago

Changing Supplies One of the main issues at work is the back order of supplies for testing and general operations. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown how weak our supply chain is around the world. As…

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10 months ago

A melioidosis outbreak? A little over a week ago, I got an email notification from ASCP. ASCP is one of the accreditation agencies for laboratory and all things pathology here in the US. The email was…

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about 1 month ago

Unlikely pathogens Going through the daily routines at work can sometimes yield interesting educational tidbits. Working in the lab, the MALTI-TOF has often revealed organisms not taught in…

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about 1 year ago

Septic with Botulism Botulism is a rather uncommon illness. Most of the trouble is in the toxin created by the organism Clostridium botulinum . Sometimes, other Clostridium species can also…

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4 months ago

Name that organism! BD's BBL CHROMagar series is one of the most useful tools when doing microbiology. It's a nonselective, differential media. This means you can grow most bacteria/yeast and they…

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4 months ago

Close encounter with a superbug source Some time ago, one of my colleagues and I stared at the test results of a patient in awe. It's not uncommon for us to work up drug-resi

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4 months ago

What drugs are there? In a land before time, how were minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) determined? The answer is it wasn't pleasant. What you see in the picture below is an Etest . It's a…

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12 months ago

Under the Scope Gram stains can be boring at times due to the volumes my department receives each day. For the most part, they are straight forward with nothing too out of the ordinary.…

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