Marc Couturier PhD, D(ABMM) 🕷🦠🔬
@Parasite_Power
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A clinical microbiologist/parasitologist sharing the love of parasites for the Twitterverse. Images and opinions are my own. NorDx Lab, MaineHealth.
Scarborough, ME
Joined August 2020
This was amazing work by an amazing team! Happy to see it rolling out and changing the game!.
Parasitology had been technologically stagnant for decades until ARUP changed the game. Now, ARUP leverages AI to improve detection of GI parasites and ease the laborious testing process. Learn more: #parasitology #parasites #artificialintelligence
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A prime welcome back to the northeast. This poor patient had a rip-roaring case of anaplasmosis diagnosed initially by blood smear and confirmed by PCR. The ticks are bad this year!!! (Removed these from my clothes with packing tape after a casual walk in the woods!)
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Happy Medical Laboratory Professionals Week 2025 to all my amazing lab folks!.Keep doing the amazing "dirty" work that nobody else sees. 🧪🧫🧬💩.🤜🔬🤛.@NorDxLab.
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This was a very fun experience to present 5 years of work in just a few minutes. But the audience was great and the discussions with colleagues afterwards was very enriching. The AI movement is huge in microbiology. The more work and the more experiences, the better it will be!.
Marc Couturier, PhD, will present on the development of an AI-screening tool designed to detect human gastrointestinal parasites in wet-mount slides at ESCMID in Vienna, Austria. Learn more about how the tool has improved detection:
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Really enjoying catching up with colleagues and learning new disciplines such as ASP, IP, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Never too old to learn new tricks 😀.Vienna is a wonderful host. If you are here at ESCMID 2025, please come say hi.
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This was a fun. The worm was barely recognizable as a worm. It vaguely looked like a proglottid, but the specimen was badly degraded. Clearing the tissue with some lactophenol exposed the genus-level ID. Taenia eggs in utero. Hooklets visible even!.#Parasitology.@ParasiteGal
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When is Strongy, too much Strongy? Well, anytime. But especially. when moms look like they are taking their kids out to the park to play!?.Three adult female Strongy and numerous L1 larvae. So much Strongy!.#parasitology.@ARUPLabs
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Super excited for this new work our team published (Dr. Angela Ma now at Public Health Ontario & Blaine Mathison at ARUP!). UV autofluorescence microscopy is a great tool that I share pictures of here often 💡🔬🪩.#parasitology.@ParasiteGal .@ARUPLabs.
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This study is important as there is a dearth of studies in our field of clinical parasitology that investigate and establish performance characteristics of classic and newer, non-molecular methods....
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RT @ARUPLabs: Attending AMP 2024? Don’t miss this discussion on gastrointestinal parasites! Marc Couturier, PhD, D(ABMM), will review the r….
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Friday, Funday. This is what we consider. a whole lot of Dientamoeba fragilis! Mostly binucleate forms with variably fragmented karyosomes. #parasitology @ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal
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@ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal These are larvae of Ixodes sp. One might assume I. scapularis based on geography, but the necessary features to key out larvae to species are difficult to discern.
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Fun treat today in the lab. A bunch of ticks from Ohio, each smaller than a poppy seed. Looks like a skydiving formation 😆. ✔️ No eyes.✔️ Long mouthparts.✔️ Inverted anal groove.✔️ 6 legs. How would you report?.#parasitology.@ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal
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I was just inspired to get off my butt and share some more images on here by a colleague at ACLPS 2024 😉.UV image of Paracapillaria in a stool specimen. #parasitology @ParasiteGal @ARUPLabs
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This was a fun case. Beautiful little (lesser known) critter! "Sounds" like a pain though. 😆🤣. Photo Quiz: An ear-resistible occupant in a 73-year-old patient | Journal of Clinical Microbiology #parasitology .@ParasiteGal @ARUPLabs @JClinMicro.
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A 73-year-old man from Texas presented to his primary care provider with a chief complaint of fullness in the left ear for 1 week. The patient did not endorse any further complaints. Upon examinati...
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This is amazing and cool to see. Admittedly, I have not seen this often at all. Continued development of embryos in Ascaris eggs. in fixative! Talk about resilient 🪱!.#parasitology .@ParasiteGal @ARUPLabs
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I love Balantioides coli. 🦠 Such a fun organism. but, be careful with iodine and 40X objectives though. easy to overlook. 10X objective screening is critical for this organism. See the difference? Look at those cute little cilia! #parasitology.@ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal
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2 dermal punch biopsies from different patients in the lab today. Same end result diagnosis. These were disected out from the tissue. What do you see here? .Thank God it is almost ❄️🌨.#parasitology.@ParasiteGal.@ARUPLabs
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RT @ARUPLabs: Happening today! Join us for the Lab Medicine in the Face of Emerging Public Health Crises webinar that will focus on strateg….
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I wear another hat as Emerging Public Health Crises director. Lots of partnerships with reference labs & public health/CDC over the years. Ben Bradley & I just published this work for anyone interested in the processes and considerations for EUA assays.
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