@MidwestMicrobes

Clinical microbiologist, amateur baker.

Joined March 2018
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Rachael Liesman retweeted
PASCV@thepascv5 Jan 2023
Registration is open!! The program features practical presentations, engaging debate sessions, and professional development opportunities along the white sand beaches of Clearwater Beach, FL. Attend in-person or virtually! Register at pascv.org/mvw. #mvw23
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Happy Halloween! Hoping the microbes are the least scary thing in everyone’s day! Made some edible plates to try today, for those brave enough.
Blood agar plates with microbial growth. Made from cherry jello, Nerds, and Gushers candies.

ALT Blood agar plates with microbial growth. Made from cherry jello, Nerds, and Gushers candies.

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Rachael Liesman retweeted
PASCV@thepascv25 Aug 2022
What are the challenges and limitations of implementing quantitative molecular tests? Join molecular virology laboratory experts for informal and interactive discussions around quantitative viral molecular testing at #PASCVFall22. Secure your spot today! pascv.org/page/FallRegistrat…
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Join us at the SWACM annual meeting September 7-9 in Kansas City! We have an excellent speaker lineup. Full program and registration available at SWACM.org. @SWACM1 @MidwestMicrobes @DrMattBinnicker @ali_eberly @MMBhattiMD @MicroMeIanie
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Please remember to collect at least four hot sauce bottles for optimal blood culture sensitivity! 😂🤣
Corynn Kasap@corynnkasap20 Jul 2022
A family member admitted to the hospital for IV antibiotics just told me the RN took "2 hot sauce bottles of blood" which is how i will be referring to blood cultures from now on.
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Lab week treats from our favorite Infection Prevention and Control friends! Teamwork makes the dream work! @maggie_reavis @tiffany_horsley @lancescot
Lab themed cookies, with adorable designs of viruses, bacteria, test tubes, and microscopes

ALT Lab themed cookies, with adorable designs of viruses, bacteria, test tubes, and microscopes

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Not pictured: breakfast from our fantastic ID colleagues. Happy lab week and thank you for supporting the lab year-round! @KUInfectDisease @KUIDfellowship
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Look at these tiny squiggles! Helicobacter cinaedi from a blood cx Spirals or gull wings on BCx Gram? Incubate microaerophilic at 42 AND 37oC. Helicobacter and some Campy only grow at 37. #MicroRounds
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BCx pos at 4d. This org grew as a thin swarming film on a choc plate, microaerophilic, 37oC. H. cinaedi is an enterohepatic helicobacter. These organisms are zoonoses and can rarely cause bacteremia, usually in immunocompromised patients.
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Found my new intro slide for mycology med school lectures!
JClinMicro EIC@JClinMicro29 Apr 2021
Fun Classifying Fungal Infections: a Micro-Comic Strip @ASMicrobiology @BurnhamBugDoc @EBabady
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👇👇👇THIS. Every. Day.
Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D.@KatherineJWu3 Dec 2020
Replying to @KatherineJWu
In interviews, so many people told me they loved their jobs. It broke their hearts not to be able to deliver super-fast tests to every single person who wants one. They said they handled every sample because each one was a life: a person's safety, comfort, health. 5/
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We soldier on "out of sheer will of not wanting to be beaten by this" Ain't that the truth... Thanks to the hardworking resilient tired lab professionals who have been at this 24/7 since March. And thanks @KatherineJWu for seeing and telling this story nytimes.com/2020/12/03/healt…
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What is your least favorite CAP checklist item and why is it comparability testing
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Molecular diagnostic testing is basically 50% extract/amp/interp and 50% repeatedly bleaching everything in sight
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On Monday we tested our first patients for #SARSCoV2 in house. So proud of my team! Support of the lab from the #KC and #KUMC community has been awesome, including some delicious treats provided by @elbowchocolates. Thanks for brightening our day!!
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An important reminder from the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City.
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A face only a parasitologist/clinical microbiologist could love! I didn’t realize the attachment and oral suckers were so close together in liver flukes (called distome arrangement apparently?)
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Cheerio! Gram negative O-shape cocci of Paracoccus yeei. Colony is mucoid, ox pos, indole neg. Isolated from umbilicus swab w/ coryne and CoNS so ? significance. Case reports of P. yeei in wounds, eye infections, and abd dialysate. #MicroRounds
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A superb history and review of CLSI breakpoint changes by @romneyinla at today’s @SWACM1 workshop here in KC #SWACM
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A very astute tech noticed something odd about this stool culture (this is the Campy plate). She made a wet mount which was packed with Strongyloides larvae. Made for quite the lab week excitement! Pt was an immigrant from S America that had recently started chemo.
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