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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

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

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

These Proteus swarmed to look like flowers 🌻 perfect to ring in springtime. #IDSky #MicroSky #ClinMicro

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Saw some beauties this week! A red Serratia, a golden Chryseobacterium, a wavin' Proteus! #ClinMicro #MicroSky #IDSky

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"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?... 🧪🧫

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This Is Not Normal

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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APHL @aphl.org · 25/01/2025

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! buff.ly/3ClR0BA #infectiousdiseases #medsky

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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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/...

media.tenor.com

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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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Bacillus spores mixed in with Nocardia. Cultured from a contaminated skin wound. #MicroSky #IDSky #ClinMicro

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Happy Friday! Here are some funny-face neutrophils to start off the weekend 😊 🧪

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 10/12/2024

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

Published on This Day in 1981.
Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia and Mucosal Candidiasis in Previously Healthy Homosexual Men — Evidence of a New Acquired Cellular Immunodeficiency

An illustration showing the reproductive cycle of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and sites of action of the major classes of antiretroviral medications.

The NEJM identity sits at the bottom.

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Pseudomonas rainbow 🌈 which flavor is your favorite? #MicroSky #ClinMicro

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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

asm.org

Clinical Microbiology Virtual Journal Club

Join ASM in discussing current journal articles in clinical microbiology. Free for ASM members.

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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

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Dr Sarah Kidd @thefunguskidd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Bipolaris mourns spicifera is transformed Curvularia with Lars Westblade #WCM #SAPathology #UniAdelaide

Photomicrograph of Curvularia australiensis, formerly Bipolaris australiensis

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🥕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...

cdc.gov

E. coli Outbreak Linked to Organic Carrots

Page describes an outbreak of E. coli linked to organic carrots.

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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Revisiting diagnostics: Immune markers to diagnose invasive pulmonary #aspergillosis @simonfeys.bsky.social et al www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S119... (paywall) #IDSky #TxID

clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com

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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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

Global distribution of KPC (A), NDM (B), and OXA-48-like (C) carbapenemases.

Phenotypic and immunochromatographic assays for the detection of carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant organisms.

Selecting a carbapenemase confirmation test for suspect clinical isolates based on cost and complexity

Appearance of carbapenem-resistant organisms on selective chromogenic media.

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This is the best description of microbial taxonomy I've ever seen in my life. (xkcd.com/3010/) #MicroSky

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

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-...

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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

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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM) @julia-hankins.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

🦠 this is the best Gram stain I have ever seen!! 🐱 (Its been awhile so I dont remember what organism it was, but its too good not to share!) #Microsky #clinmicro

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