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22/07/2025

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21/09/2024

Weekend Digest

Name the Pathogen

Five Clues
1. Darling's disease
2. Bird droppings
3. Fibrosing mediastinitis
4. Urinary antigen test
5. Echinocandins ineffective

05/08/2024

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13/07/2024

Weekend Digest

Name the Pathogen

Five Clues
1. Estuarine
2. Oysters
3. Cirrhosis
4. Primary septicemia
5. Bullous skin lesions

18/05/2024

Weekend Digest

Name the Pathogen

Five Clues
1. Mifepristone
2. Toxic shock syndrome
3. Ascites and pleural effusion
4. Profound leukemoid reaction
5. Penicillin + clindamycin

14/05/2024

Meet the Microbiologist: Rodney Rohde, Ph.D., Regents’ Professor and Chair of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at Texas State University discusses the many variants, mammalian hosts and diverse neurological symptoms of rabies virus.

Biggest Takeaways:

- Prior to his academic career, Rohde spent a decade as a public health microbiologist and molecular epidemiologist with the Texas Department of State Health Services Bureau of Laboratories and Zoonosis Control Division, and over 30 years researching rabies virus.
- While at the Department of Health Lab, Rohde worked on virus isolation using what he described as “old school” cell culture techniques, including immunoassays and hemagglutinin inhibition assays.
- He also identified different variants of rabies virus, using molecular biology techniques.
- Rohde spent time in the field shepherding oral vaccination programs that, according to passive surveillance methods have completely eliminated canine rabies in Texas.
- In the last 30-40 years, most rabies deaths in the U.S. have been caused by bats.
- Approximately 98% of the time rabies is transmitted through the saliva via a bite from a rabid animal.
- Post-exposure vaccination must take place before symptoms develop in order to be protective.

Rodney Rohde talks about the many variants, mammalian hosts and diverse neurological symptoms of rabies virus.

14/05/2024

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20/04/2024

Let’s close out the with a new case study:

A 71-year-old male develops acute respiratory distress 4 weeks after a bone marrow transplant. The patient experiences fever, tachycardia and worsening mentation. Blood and respiratory cultures reveal a Gram-negative bacillus, which was not identified by rapid respiratory and blood culture molecular panels. The microorganism is a non-lactose fermenter, and colonies are smooth and slightly raised on blood agar. There is also a notable dirt-like smell.

What’s the diagnosis?
A. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
B. Pantoea agglomerans
C. Burkholderia cepacia complex
D. Cupriavidus pauculus

Comment below and get the answer on Tues., April 23 when you visit ASM’s Case Study Page: https://asm.social/1OS

20/04/2024

Lab Week Fact of the Day: What is the link between penicillin and cantaloupe?

A strain of Penicillium chrysogenum (NRRL 1951), reclassified as P. rubens, was discovered by chance growing on a the fruit. This fungus has been used for industrial production of penicillin since the 1940s.

20/04/2024

20/04/2024

Weekend Digest

Name the Disease

Five Clues
1. Cladosporium
2. Phialophora
3. Fonsecaea
4. Exophiala
5. Wangiella

07/04/2024