A Candid Shot from the BacT Lab

Just a friendly reminder to always get a second opinion when diagnosed with a medical condition: Here's a shot from the bacteriology lab* at UNE:





That's right! There's E. coli! There's N. gonorrhea! And, that polka dotted gem to the right is a respiratory infection resistant to 9 out of the 12 of the antibiotics we tested on it!

As for the small culture on the final "S" of the Hershey's bar, I'm gonna call that one Neisseria gonorrhea. Who can tell me why???








(*To be fair, this was a learning lab populated by untrained first year medical students NOT laboratory trained technitions. Still, when you find yourself sore of throat and rapid-strep-test negative,

request a culture...)

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