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🫁Collected from a lung biopsy.🫁 Who am I?

If you look closely there are three different types of colonies on this Hektoen agar plate. What bacteria are they?

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Here's a fun one we spotted in the lab! It's Leptotrichia, a typical member of the oral flora. Occasionally, it can cause dental or bloodstream infections. It has these long, "pencil"-like Gram negative rods that like to hold onto the crystal violet and appear splotchy purple.

😵This one tricked me! In the aerobic blood culture bottle we saw variably staining rods. But it grew......Clostridium tertium! Clostridium are anaerobic GPR. But some species (like tertium) are aerotolerant. Also, anaerobes can easily overdecolorize and appear Gram negative.

When life gives you mold, make penicillin. 🧫🔬🧪

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

Cerebrospinal fluid showing variably sized encapsulated yeasts of what species? Answer: buff.ly/3HQ3pNe #PathArt #PathTwitter #IDTwitter #MedTwitter #CytoPath #Cytology