Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM)
@JuliaDHankins
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👩🔬Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology at University of Kansas 🧫TCH/BCM Clinical Microbiology Fellow and PostDoc 2018-2023 💫UTD and UTSW🔬Alum
Kansas, USA
Joined March 2021
It's cladosporium! You can see the shield cells, which are classic for this organism.
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This is proteus! Salmonella is not the only H2S producing organism! Some Proteus can also do this. Once on blood agar you can see the regular swarming behavior.
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RT @Gloria_SuraMD: Cerebrospinal fluid showing variably sized encapsulated yeasts of what species? Answer: #PathArt….
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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?
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When life gives you mold, make penicillin. 🧫🔬🧪
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This is Mycobacteria! Due to the mycolic acid in their walls, the Gram stain reagents don't stain them well. As a result, it can appear beaded, when the reagents stain in a clumpy manner (bottom), or not at all and appear as "ghost cells" (top).
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😵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.
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Saw this cool phenomenon on a Gram stain recently! Both pics are from a Gram stain. What group of organisms does this belong to?
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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.
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RT @KUPathology: Congrats Dr. Hamilton-Seth and Dr. Hankins on your new #publication 'Tropical Excursion With Ensuing Mental Ulceration' ht….
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A 40-year-old female with factor V Leiden deficiency on chronic aspirin therapy presented to her dermatologist for evaluation of a chin lesion. Two weeks p
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This is T. cruzi, which has a larger kinetoplast. It is transmitted by reduviid bugs and can cause chagas disease. T. brucei, another species, has a smaller kinetoplast and causes African sleeping sickness. It is transmitted by the tsetse fly.
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RT @EIDjournal: A Hungarian man who experienced fever, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss was diagnosed with autochthonous human #babesiosis….
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I have always thought these guys are so super cute!. Who are they and how can you distinguish between different species? What different diseases are caused by the different species?
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Vaccines save millions of lives!! Everyday I am thankful my children don't have to get sick with these once common illnesses anymore.
The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available. From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases:
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If you look closely there are three different types of colonies on this Hektoen agar plate. What bacteria are they?
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This is Aspergillus fumigatus! .- Septate hyphae with acute angle branching.- blue/green colony.- Aspergillus head with columnar conidia.
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🫁Collected from a lung biopsy.🫁. Who am I?
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