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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @jac-amr.bsky.social for highlighting our work, which I started as a medical student at @weillcornell.bsky.social, and thanks to Drs Lars Westblade and Mike Satlin for their mentorship!

JAC-AMR @jac-amr.bsky.social · 1d

This study shows that more isolates of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and other Enterobacterales are susceptible to amoxicillin/clavulanate than ampicillin/sulbactam:
doi.org/10.1093/jaca...
#JACAMRNews #IDSky

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · 25d

MTBC members M tuberculosis (the OG) and M bovis

#IDsky #ClinMicro #TBsky

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · 25d

M. smegmatis, our soil-loving laboratory friend

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · 25d

Some light-hearted content for the weekend!

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria, featuring M fortuitum, M marinum, M abscessus, M chelonae, M ulcerans, and M avium (can you guess which is which?)

#IDsky #ClinMicro

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you!! I hope you are well--congratulations on finishing your fellowship and starting the new position at Duke!

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thanks for highlighting our work, Alex!

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thanks to ICHE for highlighting our work demonstrating the utility of WGS surveillance in uncovering hospital-based transmission of VRE!

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology @ichejournal.bsky.social · Jun 3

🆕 New in ICHE: WGS surveillance of VRE uncovered undetected hospital outbreaks—spotlighting the PACU as a key transmission locus

📍 Without genomic surveillance, these clusters would’ve been missed

#IDSky

📄 doi.org/10.1017/ice....

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Apr 15

Anyone still shopping for #LabWeek? 😀

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Feb 4

Glad to see he is thriving under your care! 😄

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 30

More RBCs with inclusions! Pappenheimer bodies and Heinz body.
#Hematology #Hemepath #Hemesky #Pathology

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 28

KB test RBCs: the KB test is a method to quantify fetal RBCs in maternal circulation. Acid treatment of a maternal blood sample denatures HbA in the maternal RBCs but not HbF in the fetal RBCs. Treated cells are then stained such that fetal RBCs appear bright pink.
#Pathology #Hematology #OBsky

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 26

Something for #GIsky and #liversky

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 25

Time for some fungi: Fusarium macroconidiae, Cunninghamella, and Paracoccidioides!
#IDsky #ClinicalMicrobiology #MedicalMicrobiology #mycology

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 24

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with bud and bud scars
#microbiology #mycology #MolecularBiology

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 24

Candida in CHROMagar Candida plus colors: Candida auris, Candida albicans, and Candida glabrata.
#ClinicalMicrobiology #MedicalMicrobiology #Mycology #IDsky

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 19

Parasitized RBCs! The first has P. falciparum (note the double chromatin dots!), the second has Babesia (note the maltese cross-pathognomonic but rare in real life), and the third could have either.
#IDsky #parasitology #ClinicalMicrobiology #MedicalMicrobiology

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 19

Colorful ribosome friends!
#Biology #MolecularBiology #CellularBiology

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 19

More hemepath friends! Megakaryocyte, myeloblast (note the Auer rod!), plasma cell, and ring sideroblast.
#Hemepath #Hematology #Hemesky

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 16

Cryptococcus neoformans - note the spherical shape, narrow-necked budding, and capsule.
#IDsky

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 15

Reed-Sternberg cell
#Hematology #Pathology #Hematopathology #Heme-onc

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Sarah Schrader @microbecharmer.bsky.social · Jan 13

RBC pathologic variants: cell with basophilic stippling, bite cell, elliptocyte, and cell with Howell-Jolly body!
#Hematology #Hematopathology #Pathology

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