TWiM #150: Mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy is where it's at

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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

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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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