Tag Archive: Staphylococcus aureus
Kali Sorum
July 13, 2017
Microbiology 101 provided my first exposure to live bacterial cultures in college (aside from those my roommates created in our minifridge). The distinct smell of an Escherichia coli culture, the unique green coloration of a fuzzy penicillium colony and the…
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microbiologics
August 11, 2016
After months of anticipation and media coverage about Zika virus and water quality issues in Brazil, the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro are underway. Watching rugby players collide and rowers racing across Guanabara Bay made us…
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microbiologics
November 23, 2015
Written By: Robert C. Jerris, Ph.D. D (ABMM) Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA A simple tubing trip down a rushing river; an encounter with a rock resulting in a small abrasion on the knee; a…
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Microbiology
Acinetobacter spp., Antibiotic Resistance, Campylobacter spp., Clostridium difficile, Enterobacteriaceae, ESBL, Neisseria gonorrheae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Tuberculosis, VRE