Clinical microbiologist, amateur baker.
Joined March 2018
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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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31 Oct 2022
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.
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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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1 Aug 2022
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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21 Jul 2022
Please remember to collect at least four hot sauce bottles for optimal blood culture sensitivity! 😂🤣
20 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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27 Apr 2022
Lab week treats from our favorite Infection Prevention and Control friends! Teamwork makes the dream work! @maggie_reavis @tiffany_horsley @lancescot
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27 Apr 2022
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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15 Apr 2022
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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15 Apr 2022
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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29 Apr 2021
Found my new intro slide for mycology med school lectures!
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3 Dec 2020
👇👇👇THIS. Every. Day.
3 Dec 2020
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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3 Dec 2020
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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10 Sep 2020
What is your least favorite CAP checklist item and why is it comparability testing
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18 Jun 2020
Molecular diagnostic testing is basically 50% extract/amp/interp and 50% repeatedly bleaching everything in sight
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27 Mar 2020
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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19 Nov 2019
An important reminder from the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City.
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11 Nov 2019
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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13 Sep 2019
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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13 May 2019
A superb history and review of CLSI breakpoint changes by @romneyinla at today’s @SWACM1 workshop here in KC #SWACM
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25 Apr 2019
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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