Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬

A Nerdy Clinical Microbiologist sharing pictures and videos of microbes.
MLS trained.
Check out my Instagram: nerdy.micro
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[Bobbi Pritt, MD @ParasiteGal]

#Parasite Case 697 is up – Found in stool – another great case from Idzi Potters and @ITMantwerp. What are we seeing here?? https://t.co/Y4cW0ga1vj Answer later this week!

#mayopath #pathology #path2path #MayoClinMicro #CrittersOnTwitter #PathBugs

[Marc Couturier PhD, D(ABMM) 🕷🦠🔬 @Parasite_Power]

Fun find today.
Iodine obscured these eggs. Prepped w/out iodine made all the features pop. Last two images are actually wet preps from PVA, unconcentrated, just for fun. This was loaded.
Who am I? (Genus-level)
#parasitology
@ParasiteGal

[Bobbi Pritt, MD @ParasiteGal]

#Parasite Case 693 is up – Duodenal aspirate from an immunocompromised man from Ghana. ID? https://t.co/BrHsXMMCFU
#mayopath #pathology #path2path #MayoClinMicro #CrittersOnTwitter #PathBugs

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

@andreaprinzi I agree! Every now and then I get a grape jolly rancher smell but 99.9% of the time it is tortilla for me!

[Bobbi Pritt, MD @ParasiteGal]

The answer to #Parasite Case 691 is up: skin biopsy with engorged female tick 🕷️. Check out the key diagnostic features here:
https://t.co/YSSaRxiYnk

#mayopath #pathology #path2path #MayoClinMicro #CrittersOnTwitter

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

Coccidioides is found in the soil in the southwestern part of the United States and parts of Mexico, Central and South America. The Fungal spores are usually inhaled & can cause severe disease & disseminate in multiple areas of the body in immunocompromised individuals.

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

Coccidioidomycosis, AKA Valley Fever, is caused by the fungus Coccidioides.
These are the ruptured round spherules with endospores seen on a tissue GMS stain from Histology.
#fungalfriday #microbiology #histology #coccidioidomycosis #valleyfever #coccidioides

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

The endospores seen on Gram stain.

[Bobbi Pritt, MD @ParasiteGal]

The answer to #Parasite Case 688 is up: head louse egg. Check out the legs on the embryo inside 😮.
https://t.co/WOSqwMDewf

#mayopath #pathology #path2path #MayoClinMicro #CrittersonTwitter #PathBugs

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

@andreaprinzi 💯

[Rich Davis, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS🧫🦠 @richdavisphd]

#MicroRounds (Day 950): "I was rooting for you!"

The answer to yesterday's fungal ID quiz! The mold here is…

Rhizopus! Several features suggest Rhizopus but the BEST identifying feature are the distinctive *rhizoids* the root-like structure of arrow B. #ASMClinMicro #IDTwitter

[Bobbi Pritt, MD @ParasiteGal]

The answer to #Parasite Case 687 is up: Loa loa. You can tell because the nuclei flow-a flow-a to the tip of the tail 😊 https://t.co/UfydHYie7H Thanks to @IoanaBujila for this case, and CHECK OUT THE VIDEOs – they’re amazing.
#mayopath #pathology #path2path #MayoClinMicro

[Bobbi Pritt, MD @ParasiteGal]

#Parasite Case 687 up – Found in blood from a patient from Gabon. Donated by @IoanaBujila

See the cool videos here: https://t.co/JmhQ6HuV8R Identification?

#pathology #path2path #MayoClinMicro #CrittersonTwitter #PathBugs #idpath

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

Francisella tularensis is so dangerous because it only takes 10 organisms to cause illness and has the reputation for causing laboratory-acquired infections.
See my Instagram post for more pics and details! 🧫🔬🤓
https://t.co/XrC6Fh2YGL

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

@richdavisphd Us too. We validated BCID2 so we have MREJ with mecA/C. I have mixed feelings about the panel when it comes to the CoNS though. It's nice to have Staph epi on the panel but I've had many discrepancies where only Staph hom or some other CoNS grew but the panel detected Staph epi.

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

@Letstalkmicro1 Yeast would be my first guess. 🧫

[Nerdy Microbiologist, MLS (ASCP)CM 🧫🧬 @nerdy_micro]

@andreaprinzi @ASMicrobiology Congratulations! The Staph council will love you! 🤓

[Bug Pharmacist 💊🧫 Tim Gauthier @IDstewardship]

#Stewardmeme

Don’t treat the labs, treat the patient.