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Julia Hankins, PhD, D(ABMM)
@julia-hankins.bsky.social
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Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology at University of Kansas 🔬👩‍🔬

🦠Let's Go Micro!🧫
I like to post Clinical Micro Questions and about fun organisms!
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Got an interesting one....

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May 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The colors on these Aspergillus were just so beautiful. The green one is Aspergillus flavus, and the tan one is Aspergillus terreus.

The exudate on the A. terreus literally made it ✨️sparkle✨️.

Fungus is so amazing ❤️

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April 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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These Proteus swarmed to look like flowers 🌻 perfect to ring in springtime.

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March 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Saw some beautiful cording today in the AFB lab 😍
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March 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Saw some beauties this week! A red Serratia, a golden Chryseobacterium, a wavin' Proteus!

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February 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Who am I?

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January 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Bacillus spores mixed in with Nocardia. Cultured from a contaminated skin wound.

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January 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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🥹Beautiful Serratia

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January 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Norovirus is on the rise, perfect time for this super cool study showing 2'FL can reduce norovirus replication in human intestinal organoids! Finally, is there a potential treatment for norovirus on the horizon?

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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January 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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All of these colonies are the same genus! They are all Pseudomonas! Pseudomonas can appear mucoid, dry/wrinkly, metallic, or regular depending on the isolate. There are even 2 oxidase negative species! Do you know which ones they are?

🧫🧪

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January 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Happy Friday! Here are some funny-face neutrophils to start off the weekend 😊 🧪
January 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Saw this colorful guy pop up on a B. cepacia selective agar (BCSA) plate from a CF patient. The way it changed the color of the agar was so cool!

What fungi do you think it is?
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December 21, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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Pseudomonas rainbow 🌈 which flavor is your favorite?
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December 9, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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This impressive guy grew out of a sputum! He looks and sounds menacing, turning the agar black and named Streptomyces badius. But he's likely harmless in this patient. A lit review showed it also protects strawberry plants and their bees from pathogens! 🍓🐝
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December 4, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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Yasss ce-FAZ-olin!
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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🔬Tape Prep Tuesday! 🔬
🍄 Who am I? 🍄
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November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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This is the best description of microbial taxonomy I've ever seen in my life. (xkcd.com/3010/)
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November 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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A small, black colony was spotted on the hektoen plate of a stool culture. Upon subculture, it formed gunky, black colonies on hektoen agar and swarmed on a blood agar plate.

What organism is it? 🦠🧫
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November 12, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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🦠 this is the best Gram stain I have ever seen!! 🐱

(Its been awhile so I dont remember what organism it was, but its too good not to share!)
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November 10, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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When life gives you mold, make penicillin 🍄🧫🔬
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November 9, 2024 at 10:35 AM