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Let’s hope we learn from the marketing disaster that was plazomicin and we actually get this to bedsides

I’d love to speak to some lab people ❤️

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Seems like an odd question but the WHO have highlighted disparate practise between 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸…..and we are rewriting UK guidance atm, and I’d love to know what the rest of the world does with BALs for micro.

Lovely tutorial.
One of those times when “no” is a full sentence 🤣

@richdavisphd.bsky.social any ideas?

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Friends in the USA / Canada

What is your national guidance for the laboratory processing of BAL fluid?!

In the UK we advise a semi quantitative culture to enumerate bacteria…..we have been told your guidance is culture of the centrifuged deposit.

All guidance appreciated…..

Just a guess but your Dads northern isn’t he……

Nothing.
Sadly.
It is already playing out in local government - with ineptitude evident. We just have to hope that MSM highlights how unfit they are to govern, but fb is a good barometer for mood - looking at my timelines the reform vote is pulling equally from L/T.

She spoke truth to power 🥰

A quick wet prep will tell you, you don’t even need to Gram.

Tbh that shade of pink is perfect for Rhodotorula sp., nothing else is quite that pink and small. Milkshake pink

Rhodotorula

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I’d vote yeast!

This is the real reason for Brexit. We are, as a nation, a hot sweaty un-chic mess in the summer - and frankly for years we have been letting the whole continent down.

Who will do these tests?
Massive numbers of specialised biomedical scientists being made redundant.

Risk.
That’s the risk to the healthcare of all.

WGS of newborns when we can’t even lift children out of poverty.

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Trauma counselling really helps - talking about the pressure points in a safe space might be needed post enquiry.

Thank you for speaking, and helping the world see that the people behind the lab testing also suffered x

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Not for me 😘🥰
He is one of my faves