TWiM #150: Microbiology is where it’s at

In recognition of National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, Robin Patel speaks with the TWiM team about directing a clinical bacteriology laboratory, and how an observation made by a laboratory technologist lead to the finding that Ureaplasma species can cause a system metabolic disturbance, hyperammonemia.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

Guest: Robin Patel

Links for this episode:

• National Laboratory Professionals Week
• Mayo Clinic Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
• Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Mayo Clinic
• Murine model of Ureaplasma hyperammonemia (Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis)
• Ureaplasma and human hyperammonemia (Sci Transl Med)

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