MicroCulture

microminutes: aestling: mom there are gram-positives under my...

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:19:25 -0400

aestling:

mom there are gram-positives under my bed

Nice!

Deadly Strain Of Bird Flu Is 'Most Lethal' Flu Virus Yet : NPR

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:53:02 -0400

Deadly Strain Of Bird Flu Is 'Most Lethal' Flu Virus Yet : NPR:

At a briefing in Beijing Wednesday, World Health Organization officials called the H7N9 bird flu that’s emerged in China one of the “most lethal” flu viruses so far. NPR science correspondent Richard Knox talks about what we know, and the questions that remain about the deadly strain.

how-to-behave: My new shirt! #science #nerdy #microbiology...

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:49:00 -0400

how-to-behave:

My new shirt! #science #nerdy #microbiology #punny

Happy Med Lab Week! (at Toronto General Hospital)

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:53:22 -0400

Happy Med Lab Week! (at Toronto General Hospital)

Clinical Virology Symposium (at Ocean Center Daytona Beach)

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:59:54 -0400

Clinical Virology Symposium (at Ocean Center Daytona Beach)

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:55:30 -0400

Clinical Virology Symposium (at Ocean Center Daytona Beach)

China kills birds as new flu strain death toll hits 6 China...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:55:10 -0400

China kills birds as new flu strain death toll hits 6

China announced a sixth death from a new bird flu strain Friday, while authorities halted the sale of live fowl and slaughtered of all poultry at a Shanghai market where the virus was detected in pigeons being sold for meat.

The mass bird killing is the first so far as the Chinese government responds to the H7N9 strain of bird flu, which has sickened 14 people, many critically, along the eastern seaboard in its first known infections of people. The first cases were announced Sunday.

Health officials believe people are contracting the virus through direct contact with infected fowl and say there has been no evidence so far that the virus is spreading easily between people. However, scientists are watching closely to see if the flu poses a substantial risk to public health or could potentially spark a global pandemic.

Eeeew! That’s one mucoid Klebsiella!

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:27:44 -0400

Eeeew! That’s one mucoid Klebsiella!

Klebsiella pneumonia with NDM and OXA-48 carbapenemases. Scary...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:22:00 -0400

Klebsiella pneumonia with NDM and OXA-48 carbapenemases. Scary stuff!

(double disk test for ESBL [above] and ROSCO KPC/MBL disks [below] )

jtotheizzoe: explore-blog: Yesteryear’s stereotype-defiers:...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:57:28 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

explore-blog:

Yesteryear’s stereotype-defiers: Kick-ass vintage public domain photos of women in science.

Rock on, ladies!! Decades of inspiration here.

A Warning to Clean Bagpipes

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:38:10 -0400

A Warning to Clean Bagpipes:

After a longtime member of a bagpiping school nearly died of a lung infection from fungi, a warning was issued to pipers to clean their instruments regularly.

Backyard Chickens: Cute, Trendy Spreaders Of...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:24:19 -0400

Backyard Chickens: Cute, Trendy Spreaders Of Salmonella

Backyard chickens have become a coveted suburban accessory, one that packages cuteness, convenience and local food production in one fluffy feathered package.

But animal husbandry can be a nasty business, a fact that’s often glossed over by poultry partisans like Martha Stewart and New Yorker writer Susan Orlean.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report doesn’t do gloss. In its latest edition, this chronicle of all things contagious reports on a 2012 salmonella outbreak among 195 people in 27 states.

Most had had contact with live chickens, and many had purchased the birds from an Ohio mail-order hatchery for backyard flocks.

markbelan: Bacteriart!Using streptomyces, I was able to culture...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:41:37 -0400

markbelan:

Bacteriart!

Using streptomyces, I was able to culture several images out of different strains of the colourful bacteria.

Strains include: Streptomyces ceolicolour M145 (the blue), Streptomyces venezuelae (the yellow) and Streptomyces coelicolour (red mutant) (the red!)

The images took about 4 days to “grow” when placed in an incubator.

scientistintraining: Happy St. Patrick’s Day! “CDC...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:37:15 -0400

scientistintraining:

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

“CDC microbiologist, Johannetsy Avillan, holds up a plate that demonstrates the modified Hodge test, which is used to identify resistance in bacteria known as Enterobacteriaceae. Bacteria that are resistant to carbapenems produce a distinctive clover-leaf.”

Credits: CDC

Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). The CRE encompass a large group of microorganisms called Enterobacteriaceae, which include bacterium like E. coli and Klebsiella. Over the past few decades these organisms have become a huge public health concern.

expose-the-light: Bacteria Friends by Alison Kim

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:07:21 -0400

expose-the-light:

Bacteria Friends by Alison Kim

Those weren't the bacteria you were looking for.

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:05:01 -0400

Those weren't the bacteria you were looking for.:

Wah woh.

zlkaiburington:

Unfortunately, it seems the ice core bacteria from Lake Volstok in Antarctica are contamination.

Antarctic Lake Vostok yields 'new bacterial life'

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:13:40 -0400

Antarctic Lake Vostok yields 'new bacterial life':

The researchers have been studying samples brought up from Vostok - the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica.

Last year, the team drilled through almost 4km (2.34 miles) of ice to reach the lake and retrieve samples.

Vostok is thought to have been cut off from the surface for millions of years.

This has raised the possibility that such isolated bodies of water might host microbial life forms new to science.

“After putting aside all possible elements of contamination, DNA was found that did not coincide with any of the well-known types in the global database,” said Sergei Bulat, of the genetics laboratory at the St Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics.

“We are calling this life form unclassified and unidentified,” he explained.

inkblob: Caught this little dude running around some...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:06:48 -0400

inkblob:

Caught this little dude running around some aspergillus I was photographing.

realfakescientist: I’m a funguy but I don’t like...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:04:46 -0400

realfakescientist:

I’m a funguy but I don’t like contamination.

Microscope and Petri Dishes Vinyl Wall Art

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:20:27 -0500

Microscope and Petri Dishes Vinyl Wall Art