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Blog post on pediatric clinical microbiology by Thea Brennan-Krohn

7/28/2018

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JUST SMALL ADULTS? PEDIATRIC CONSIDERATIONS IN CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
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Inoculum effect (IE) Manuscript Published Today!

7/27/2018

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Now live on the Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Webpage:  The Inoculum Effect in the Era of Multidrug Resistance: Minor Differences in Inoculum Have Dramatic Effect on MIC Determination.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, KP Smith, discusses the ins and outs of MALDI-TOF for microbial identification

7/17/2018

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KP Smith waxes eloquently on the MALDI-TOF technology for micro-organism identification on the ASM-Blog.  I love his time-of-flight (TOF)  baseball analogy.  Oh, and on his spare time, KP performs translational diagnostics and antimicrobial development research. 
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"Research Points to Potential Shortcoming of Antibiotic Lab Tests"

7/12/2018

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Our inoculum effect manuscript in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy highlighted in BIDMC news release.
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Winogradsky Columm at Harvard Museum of Natural History

7/11/2018

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Winogradsky column for growth of diverse microbial species
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Different types of soil bacterium. Perhaps some of the streptomyces shown produce antibiotics!
Winogradsky column and examples of soil bacterial from visiting exhibit on microbial life at Harvard Museum of Natural History.   Great exhibit!
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