@microbecharmer.bsky.social
Clinical pathology resident in Boston. Check out my Etsy store: etsy.com/shop/MicrobeCharmer.
Viruses in the news (for ever-nefarious reasons):
Measles - Canada, and thus the Americas, have lost their measles elimination status
Marburg - first-ever outbreak reported in Ethiopia
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#IDSky #MicroSky #ClinMicro #MicroArt
Agar plate magnets! Blood agar (alpha hemolysis), MacConkey agar (lactose fermenter), chocolate agar, and MacConkey agar (non-fermenter).
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Mtb magnets!
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E. coli magnets!
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#ClinMicro #IDSky
Holiday preview!
Santa hat Mtb, Santa hat RBCs (normal and sickled), and candy cane Strep.
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#IDsky #ClinMicro #HemeSky
Schistosome eggs!
Schistosoma japonicum, Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma haematobium
#IDsky #microSky #ClinMicro
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Thanks to @jac-amr.bsky.social for highlighting our work, which I started as a medical student at @weillcornell.bsky.social, and thanks to Drs Lars Westblade and Mike Satlin for their mentorship!
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MTBC members M tuberculosis (the OG) and M bovis
#IDsky #ClinMicro #TBsky
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M. smegmatis, our soil-loving laboratory friend
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Some light-hearted content for the weekend!
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria, featuring M fortuitum, M marinum, M abscessus, M chelonae, M ulcerans, and M avium (can you guess which is which?)
#IDsky #ClinMicro
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Thank you!! I hope you are well--congratulations on finishing your fellowship and starting the new position at Duke!
04.09.2025 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks for highlighting our work, Alex!
03.06.2025 14:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks to ICHE for highlighting our work demonstrating the utility of WGS surveillance in uncovering hospital-based transmission of VRE!
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Anyone still shopping for #LabWeek? 😀
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Glad to see he is thriving under your care! 😄
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More RBCs with inclusions! Pappenheimer bodies and Heinz body.
#Hematology #Hemepath #Hemesky #Pathology
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KB test RBCs: the KB test is a method to quantify fetal RBCs in maternal circulation. Acid treatment of a maternal blood sample denatures HbA in the maternal RBCs but not HbF in the fetal RBCs. Treated cells are then stained such that fetal RBCs appear bright pink.
#Pathology #Hematology #OBsky
Something for #GIsky and #liversky
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Time for some fungi: Fusarium macroconidiae, Cunninghamella, and Paracoccidioides!
#IDsky #ClinicalMicrobiology #MedicalMicrobiology #mycology
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with bud and bud scars
#microbiology #mycology #MolecularBiology
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Candida in CHROMagar Candida plus colors: Candida auris, Candida albicans, and Candida glabrata.
#ClinicalMicrobiology #MedicalMicrobiology #Mycology #IDsky
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Parasitized RBCs! The first has P. falciparum (note the double chromatin dots!), the second has Babesia (note the maltese cross-pathognomonic but rare in real life), and the third could have either.
#IDsky #parasitology #ClinicalMicrobiology #MedicalMicrobiology
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Colorful ribosome friends!
#Biology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology
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More hemepath friends! Megakaryocyte, myeloblast (note the Auer rod!), plasma cell, and ring sideroblast.
#Hemepath #Hematology #Hemesky
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Cryptococcus neoformans - note the spherical shape, narrow-necked budding, and capsule.
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Reed-Sternberg cell
#Hematology #Pathology #Hematopathology #Heme-onc
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RBC pathologic variants: cell with basophilic stippling, bite cell, elliptocyte, and cell with Howell-Jolly body!
#Hematology #Hematopathology #Pathology
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C. elegans and Mtb!
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RBCs - holiday, dacrocyte (tear drop cell), agglutinate, schistocyte
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Spreading some microbe cheer as the holiday season approches. Here's a festive Treponema pallidum and his pal E coli!
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