Untold Stories of the Clinical Laboratory

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Not many people know about what happens when you pee in a cup, have to send in your poop, or have blood drawn. And I like telling stories from work.

I'm here to open the lid on the "magic box" that is the clinical laboratory.

I'll also include other interesting medically-related things as I find them.

Untold Stories of the Clinical Laboratory

melismatan:

I want to phagocytose some phagocytes.

geneticist:

Merry Christmas, Nerds! Here’s some Christmas fungus on a petri dish.

dryeffects:

Vacutainer Tubes

cattelia:

Haemophilus influenzae satellite growth up against S. aureus

microculture:

“Brain-Eating” Amoeba Kills Second Neti Pot User

Louisiana state health officials are warning patients about potential dangers of using tap water in the sinus-irrigating neti pot after two patients died of Naegleria fowleri infection.
N. fowleri is known as a “brain-eating” amoeba because it can enter a patient’s nose, infect the brain, and cause primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a brain-tissue destroying condition.

Other than the awkwardness of the neti pot, here is another reason for me to never try it.

ohscience:

Coagulation: Fibrin clot with trapped erythrocytes (red blood cells).
Can’t provide a link, it’s in my physiology book.
Figure 17.14 in Human Physiology An Integrated Approach, 5th edition, by Silverthorn.
(submission from oneluckyduck)

amumblingidiot:

(via MRSA growth on a chromogenic agar photo - Rodolfo Parulan Jr. photos at pbase.com)

(via Learn About Blood | American Red Cross)

medicalschool:

Neutrophil, Thrombocyte and Erythrocytes

medicalschool:

Change in heart valve due to zygomycosis
Using methenamine silver stain, one can detect the presence of fungal elements associated with zygomycosis, including sparsely septate hyphae, amongst a mostly acute inflammatory process with some island of chronic granulomatous inflammation.