Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM)
@julia-hankins.bsky.social
Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology at University of Kansas 🔬👩🔬 🦠Let's Go Micro!🧫 I like to post Clinical Micro Questions and about fun organisms!
The colors on these Aspergillus were just so beautiful. The green one is Aspergillus flavus, and the tan one is Aspergillus terreus. The exudate on the A. terreus literally made it ✨️sparkle✨️. Fungus is so amazing ❤️ #IDsky #MicroSky #ClinMicro
These Proteus swarmed to look like flowers 🌻 perfect to ring in springtime. #IDSky #MicroSky #ClinMicro
Saw some beauties this week! A red Serratia, a golden Chryseobacterium, a wavin' Proteus! #ClinMicro #MicroSky #IDSky
"This progress we've had is not inevitable, it is the result of sustained, ongoing, open-ended funding and collaboration." "Continued progress for human health is not natural. It will result or fail to result from human choices." youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?... 🧪🧫
This Is Not Normal
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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ICYMI: On the classic game The Oregon Trail, pioneers faced constant threats—including disease. Many of those illnesses are still with us today. Learn about their impact and how they spread in our latest blog! https://buff.ly/3ClR0BA #infectiousdiseases #medsky
Companions in antimicrobial resistance: examining transmission of common antimicrobial-resistant organisms between people and their dogs, cats, and horses #IDSky #VetSky #AMRSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
a dachshund is standing next to a red mixer with a paris poster behind it
Alt: a dachshund gets a back scratch from a red KitchenAid stand mixer
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Bacillus spores mixed in with Nocardia. Cultured from a contaminated skin wound. #MicroSky #IDSky #ClinMicro
Norovirus is on the rise, perfect time for this super cool study showing 2'FL can reduce norovirus replication in human intestinal organoids! Finally, is there a potential treatment for norovirus on the horizon? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #MicroSky #ClinMicro #IDSky #MedSky
All of these colonies are the same genus! They are all Pseudomonas! Pseudomonas can appear mucoid, dry/wrinkly, metallic, or regular depending on the isolate. There are even 2 oxidase negative species! Do you know which ones they are? 🧫🧪 #MicroSky #ClinMicro #IDsky
Happy Friday! Here are some funny-face neutrophils to start off the weekend 😊 🧪
Saw this colorful guy pop up on a B. cepacia selective agar (BCSA) plate from a CF patient. The way it changed the color of the agar was so cool! What fungi do you think it is? #MicroSky #ClinMicro
On this day in 1981, a landmark paper in NEJM described four patients with evidence of immunodeficiency associated with PJP pneumonia, disseminated CMV, and Kaposi sarcoma. The disease would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. Revisit the paper: nej.md/41iekKD #MedSky #IDSky
Excited for the next ASM journal club on molecular detection of lower respiratory tract infections next Tuesday! Looks like a great lineup of panelists and presenters! asm.org/webinars/vir... #Microsky #ClinMicro
Clinical Microbiology Virtual Journal Club
Join ASM in discussing current journal articles in clinical microbiology. Free for ASM members.
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This impressive guy grew out of a sputum! He looks and sounds menacing, turning the agar black and named Streptomyces badius. But he's likely harmless in this patient. A lit review showed it also protects strawberry plants and their bees from pathogens! 🍓🐝 #MicroSky #ClinMicro
Another outbreak - this time salmonella in SunFed cucumbers! If you have any please throw it away! #MicroSky #ClinMicro www.cdc.gov/salmonella/o...
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cucumbers
Information about multistate <em>Salmonella</em> outbreaks linked cucumbers.
cdc.gov
Bipolaris mourns spicifera is transformed Curvularia with Lars Westblade #WCM #SAPathology #UniAdelaide
🥕Shiga-toxin producing E coli outbreak in carrots! I had these in my fridge 😨. If you have them please throw them away! #MicroSky #ClinMicro www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbre...
E. coli Outbreak Linked to Organic Carrots
Page describes an outbreak of E. coli linked to organic carrots.
cdc.gov
Revisiting diagnostics: Immune markers to diagnose invasive pulmonary #aspergillosis @simonfeys.bsky.social et al www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119... (paywall) #IDSky #TxID
DEFINE_ME
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Laboratory detection of carbapenemases among Gram-negative organisms Patricia Simner, Johan Pitout, and Tanis Dingle 🤩 #ClinMicroReviews journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... (Paywall) #IDSky #MicroSky
This is the best description of microbial taxonomy I've ever seen in my life. (xkcd.com/3010/) #MicroSky
#IDsky #HIVsky #idmeded #meded #IDChalkTalks #IDSAMededCOP #TLR group: we have so many quick chalk talks that you can use with your learners on the round idsame.notion.site/ID-Chalk-Tal...
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Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
A small, black colony was spotted on the hektoen plate of a stool culture. Upon subculture, it formed gunky, black colonies on hektoen agar and swarmed on a blood agar plate. What organism is it? 🦠🧫 #Microsky #ClinMicro
