NEW SECTION in ASM JCM: 🤩Innovative Diagnostics Methods🤩 Manuscripts “will not be required to have full clinical validation or analytical optimization.” ✍️ 🦠 🧫 🔬 ✍️ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jc…

Recent CDC #SARSCoV2 wastewater data for current wave (vs Omicron Jan 2022 and subsequent waves), graph by Dr. Lucky Tran

A thoughtful microbiology commentary by Linoj Samuel. PhD, D(ABMM) in ASM JClinMicro EIC on the U.S. FDA proposed LDT rule: “A rule must also balance the potential negative impact to patient care with realistic safety risks for infectious disease diagnostics.” journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jc…

Strongyloides stercoralis en muestra BK de esputo, coloración de Ziehl Neelsen

🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠 Flu is still peaking in Cleveland. clevelandcliniclabs.com/respiratory-vi…

Great insights from Romney Humphries

I appreciate “Stop being a hero”🦸 from Alicia McKay: blog.aliciamckay.co.nz/ww/blog/hero

🦠 🧠 Microbial Memory 🧠 🦠 Fun & brief write-up by @madelinerb2 on an understudied and clinically important part of microbiology that impacts small colony variants, mucoid phenotypes, heteroresistance, virulence, and more…. asm.org/articles/2024/… Souvik Bhattacharyya

Walking pneumonia is a bacterial infection caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections have been increasing in children since last spring and remain high, especially for kids ages 2-4 years, according to the CDC. buff.ly/40gIa1E

cdc.gov/ncird/whats-ne… ❗️Mycoplasma pneumoniae is BACK 🫁

Micro Plate rounds are always a highlight of the week! So grateful for the teaching and expertise our amazing microbiology team shares with us at CCF . Learning from the best to provide the best care! Daniel D. Rhoads Cleveland Clinic

Here's the latest variant picture for the United States. DeFLuQE variants are still dominant, but growth has ended and they are in sharp decline. XEC.* grew strongly to around 27%. 🧵

As we approach World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, at today’s micro plate rounds we learned about beta-lactamases—the enzymes driving beta-lactam resistance. A timely discussion on the mechanisms fueling AMR. #WAAW #AntimicrobialResistance #InfectiousDiseases Bethany Burns

🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠 So much flu… clevelandcliniclabs.com/respiratory-vi…

Flu A doing its thing…

🦠 Second place at #IDWeek2025 #BugBowl but first in our hearts 💙 The CCF Bug Bowl team absolutely crushed it today! Months of hard work, dedication, and infectious enthusiasm paid off — they made us so proud! #IDFellows #TeamCCF IDWeek

Free rapid AST webinar from ASM on 6 Nov 2025: asm.org/webinars/direc…

🦠🦠 H3N2 subclade K is here 🦠 🦠 Kudos to the diagnostic microbiology team ClevelandClinicLabs for standing up Influenza A whole genome sequencing just in time for the new flu. clevelandcliniclabs.com/respiratory-vi…

🔬Classic Gram stain morphology🔬 🕷️Spidery gram-positive bacilli🕷️ Cutibacterium (Propionibacterium) acnes 📸 Pictured is a blood 🩸culture 🧫 that was contaminated with these bacteria from the skin. It can cause infection; C. acnes is a common cause of shoulder PJI.

Tiny bacilli seen on sputum Gram stain. Its growth satellites around S. aureus on blood agar, and it grows well on chocolate 🍫 agar. Pfieffer mistakenly thought it caused influenza when he discovered it, which is why “influenza” is in its name. 🧫🔬Haemophilus influenzae🔬🧫