Rich Davis

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Clinical Microbiology Lab Director. Sharing clinical micro pics with #MicroRounds (originally on another social media site); he/him

A side by side image of a bacterial growth media with white antibiotic disks and zones around them. On the left a zone with a sharp edge, onthe right a zone with a hazy, fuzzy edge
A black bacterial culture media with a lot of bacterial colonies. Caption reads, Bordetella holmesii Respiratory culture – other flora present Regan-Lowe agar: charcoal based – horse blood; charcoal neutralizes fatty acids, peroxides; AmpB, cephalexin Silvery, pearly colonies PCR: carries insertion sequence IS481 (like B. pertussis, but fewer copies than B. pertussis)