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Let's Talk Micro — 249 episodes

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241: What Can Whole Genome Sequencing Realistically Tell Us About Resistance?

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240: CLSI M100 2026: Actualizaciones

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239: Inside ASM Microbe 2026

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238: From the Bench to CPEP: An MLS Journey

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237: Micro Minutes: A Case of Mistaken Identity

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236: Let's Talk Andes Virus

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235: Let's Talk Hantavirus

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234: High School, the Laboratory, and Workforce Development

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233: The Background Singers of Gram-Negative Cocci

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232: What's New at ASM Microbe 2026?

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231: The Hockey Puck Bug: Moraxella catarrhalis

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230: Same Gram Stain, Different Story: Neisseria meningitidis vs gonorrhoeae

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229: Gram-Negative Cocci: Beyond the Plate

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228: Gram-Negative Cocci: What to Do After the Gram Stain

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227: When Gram-Negative Cocci Show Up: How to Think at the Bench

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226: CLSI M100 2026 Updates

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Quick Update from Let's Talk Micro

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225: Too Many Bugs, One Culture: A CMPH Guide to Wound Cultures

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224: Micro Minutes: Sometimes Gram Stains Lie

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223: SuperStat to Storytime: Building the Future of Laboratory Medicine

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222: Parasites, Pediatrics, and the Lab: A Study from Guinea, West Africa

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221: Beyond the Plate: Your Isolates and Genomic Epidemiology

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220: New Clinical Microbiology Certification Pathway at UF

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219: Tick-Borne Diseases: The Lab and Diagnostics

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218: Metagenomics in Clinical Microbiology

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217: Micro Minutes: Don't Let PEA Fool You

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216: AMR Summit 2025: One Health, One Fight

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215: One Health, Many Species: AMR Through a Veterinary Lens

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214: Beyond the Bench: Optimization & Stewardship in Action

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213: Micro Minutes: When Bacteria Break the Rules

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212: Micro Minutes: Sometimes MacConkey Lies

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211: At the Speed of AST: Diagnosing Resistance Faster

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210: IDWeek 2025 Highlights: From Bench to Bedside

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209: CLSI y resistencia antimicrobiana (In Spanish)

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208: The Microbiome Center of Puerto Rico

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207: Micro Lab and Stewardship: Collaboration in Action (Pt.2)

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206: Micro Lab and Stewardship: Collaboration in Action (Pt.1)

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205: Complicated UTIs: The New IDSA Guidelines

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204: In the Bloodstream: Diagnosing Infections Faster

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203: What's New with Brucella?

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202: AI vs. Superbugs: Can AI Help?

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201: Spotlight: Rethinking AST-Disk Diffusion on Early Growth

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200: Early Growth, Faster Answers: Rethinking AST

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199: Antibiotics: What's New in Treatment

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198: Let's Talk: The Evolution of AST

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TBT: Talking Breakpoints with Dr. Andrea Prinzi

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TBT: Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook

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195: Diabetic Wound Cultures: From Chaos to Clarity in the Micro Lab

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194: Live from ASM Microbe 2025: Poster Highlights, Trends & Takeaways

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193: ASM 2025: Fast Science. Big Cases

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192: Stronger Together: Partnerships in Diagnostics

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191: TBT- Talking HIV with Dr. Hsu

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190: Aztreonam-avibactam

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189: Outbreak Detection System

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188: Haemophilus: ALA, susceptibilities, and more

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187: Haemophilus

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186: Talking CPEP Fellowship

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185: The Path to Microbiology: their journey pt. 3

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184: Lariocidin

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183: 101 Topics for Clinical Microbiology Lab Leaders

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182: TBT- Next Generation Sequencing

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181: Microbiology CAP Checklists: Latest Updates

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180: CLSI M100-Ed35: updates and more

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179: Eikenella

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178: Talking Micro with Janet Hindler

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177: MLS Clinical Certificates : Loyola University Chicago

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176: Microbiology kits: Carolina Distance Learning

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175: The Path to Microbiology: their journey pt. 2

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174: The Path to Microbiology: their journey

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173: Acid- fast bacilli (AFB) : An Introduction

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172: Talking AMR: Macrolides and Lincosamides

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171: Microbiology and Blood Bank Simulation Lab

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170: Sulopenem

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169: Health Care Linens: outbreaks and more

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168: Pasteurella: species, media, and more

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167: Talking AMR: Oxazolidinones

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166: Pasteurella multocida: capsular groups and more

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165: E. coli: NDM and PBP variants

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164: MicroClinUy (En Español/ In Spanish)

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163: Talking AMR- Glycopeptides

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TBT: Veterinary Microbiology

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TBT: Biochemicals- catalase and coagulase

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TBT: Media

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159: A novel microbicide for Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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158: Joint Infections PCR Panel

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157: Lactobacillus

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156: Actinotignum schaalii

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155: ASCP: Microbiology Certifications

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154: Dengue

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153: Bone and Joint Infections

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152: Potential antibiotics: lolamicin

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TBT: Streptococcus anginosus group

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TBT: LPC-233: An LpxC inhibitor

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TBT: Fabimycin: an antibiotic candidate

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151: Ace the Boards: Microbiology

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150: Sterile body fluids and Multiplex PCR

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Spotlight: Respiratory cultures

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149: Talking Microbiome

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148: Bonus: Live from ASM Microbe 2024

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147: Research in Medical Laboratory Science: moose, bears, ESBL, and more

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146: Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)

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145: Talking AMR: Polymyxins (lipopeptides)

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144: Serie en Español: Tinción de Gram

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143: Navigating your Path

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142: UAA MLS : Microbiology and Research

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141: AR Isolate Bank

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140: Talking AMR: Tetracyclines

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139: Bacillus: morphology and media

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138: Bacillus species

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137: Corynebacterium diphtheriae: media and more

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136: Corynebacterium

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135: Talking ID Stewardship, learning antibiotics, and more

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134: Doctor of Public Health (DrPH)

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133: Teaching Microbiology in High School

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132: Listeria: media and more

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131: Listeria

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130: ABMM Certification

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129: AR Lab Network, GN7F panel, and more

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128: Talking AMR: Aminoglycosides

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127: Next-generation sequencing

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126: Talking Variovorax durovernensis

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125: Manual of Clinical Microbiology

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124: Collaboration with Breakpoints podcast: Talking AUR, CAP breakpoint requirements, and more

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123: Streptococcus agalactiae (re-release)

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122: Enterococcus species (re-release)

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121: S. pneumoniae: testing and more (re-release)

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120: Talking AMR: Fluoroquinolones

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119: Streptococcus pneumoniae (re-release)

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118: Talking urine culture orders

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117: LPC-233: An LpxC inhibitor

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116: An introduction to anaerobes (re-release)

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115: Talking MALDI-TOF MS PT.2 : pros and cons

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114: Collaboration with ID:IOTS podcast: Talking Laboratory and more

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113: (Spanish) Serie en español- Medios de cultivo

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112: Talking MALDI-TOF MS PT. 1

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111: Marburg virus

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110: (Spanish) Serie en español- Introducción y objetivos

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Special updates

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109: The Live Episode from ID Week 2023

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108: A Pediatric Hospital in Guinea Pt.2

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107: A Pediatric Hospital in Guinea Pt.1

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106: Talking Malaria

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105: Veterinary Microbiology

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104: Emerging viruses pt. 2

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103: Emerging viruses pt. 1

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102: Talking Francisella: an interesting case

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101: Talking AMR: Beta-lactams

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Season 3: a preview and updates

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100: Collaboration with Microbe Mail podcast: Hey Micro-There's a yeast in my culture

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99: Talking MLS with Dr. Melissa Jamerson

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98: Talking AMR : An overview

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97: Digital Parasitology

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96: Live at ASM with the Microbe Moment podcast

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95: ASM Microbe 2023- Sessions, posters and more.

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94: CLSI M100 Ed. 33 updates

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93: An overview of Parasitology with Dr. Pritt

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92: Hospital network goes down pt. 2

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91: Hospital network goes down pt. 1

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90: Piperacillin-Tazobactam, automated systems, and CLSI breakpoints

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89: XDR Shigella

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88: Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook

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87: Lab week- St. Louis University MLS program

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86: Bacteria Game

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85: Bacterial biofilms and antimicrobial resistance

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84: Talking Candida auris

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83: Talking MS in MLS and Summer Immersion Program with Loyola University

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82: Discrepancies between phenotypic and genotypic testing in Microbiology pt.2

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81: Discrepancies between phenotypic and genotypic testing in Microbiology pt.1

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80: Talking DCLS with Dr. Brandy Gunsolus

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79: Failure to launch- Bacteria and the Hawaiian bobtail squid

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78: Cordyceps

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77: Bacillus anthracis

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76: Bacillus- morphology and media

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75: Bacillus species

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74: Microbes in cleaning appliances and tools

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73: Detecting amoeba: development of a PCR test

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72: Marine Microbiology with Dr. Ocean

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71: Let's Talk Micro meets ID:iots

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70: Microbes and your grocery list

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69: Online unknowns

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68: Respiratory cultures

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67: Re-release: Wohlfarhtiimonas chitiniclastica Monomicrobial bacteremia

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66: Wohlfahrtiimonas and the fly who cried Wohlf

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65: Yersinia pestis

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64: Yersinia

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63: The source of the Black Death

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62: Fabimycin: an antibiotic candidate

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61: Options for teaching microscopy remotely

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60: Learning about Rabies with Dr. Rodney Rohde

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59: Teaching Microbiology Remotely

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58: S. pneumoniae: testing and more

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57: Streptococcus pneumoniae

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56: Critical shortages in Microbiology

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55: Michigan Tech University-MLS Summer Youth Program

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Episode 54: VRE tests and media

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Episode 53: Enterococcus species

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Episode 52: Tips and suggestions in Microbiology part two

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Episode 51: Tips and suggestions in Microbiology

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Episode 50: Lights, Camera… Lab! Dr. Alan Wu's Vision

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Episode 49: Streptococcus anginosus group

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Episode 48: Talking monkeypox with Dr. Rodney Rohde

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Episode 47: Streptococcus dysgalactiae

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Episode 46: University of Utah MLS- Summer Immersion Program

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Episode 45: Talking Breakpoints with Dr. Andrea Prinzi

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Episode 44: Talking BacterioSight and urine cultures with Dr. Rhoads

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Episode 43: The Microbe Moment talks micro with me

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Episode 42: Talking HIV with Dr. Hsu

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Episode 41: Talking Neisseria with Charlene Kahler

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Episode 40: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and automated susceptibility testing

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Episode 39: Talking disk diffusion performed on early growth

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Episode 38: Staphylococcus singaporensis

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Episode 37: GBS testing

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Episode 36: Streptococcus agalactiae

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Episode 35: Talking Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica

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Episode 34: Group A Strep Testing

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Episode 33: Streptococcus pyogenes

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Episode 32: Talking Lab with Xander and Maria

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Episode 31: CNS, Micrococcus and Aerococcus

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Episode 30: Coagulase Negative Staph

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Episode 29: Talking Staphylococcus argenteus

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Episode 28: Chromogenic agar for MRSA and more

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Episode 27: Staphylococcus aureus, biochemicals and MRSA

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Episode 26: Staphylococcus aureus

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Episode 25: MALDI-TOF (part 2)

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Episode 24: MALDI-TOF (part 1)

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Episode 23: Pasteurella, why is it my favorite?

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Episode 22: Anaerobic agar

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Episode 21: Anaerobes: Sources and incubation

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Episode 20: An introduction to anaerobes

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Episode 19: Thioglycolate broth

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Episode 18: Talking Micro with Dania Casellas

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Episode 17: Gram negative cocci

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Episode 16: Catarrhalis disk

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Episode 15: Urease test

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Episode 14: Lysine Iron Agar

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Episode 13: Triple Sugar Iron

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Episode 12: Hektoen, XLD and more

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Episode 11: A conversation with Karla Zamora

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Episode 10: Oxidase

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Episode 9: Indole

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Optochin and Microdase disk

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Episode 7: PYR and Strep Typing

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Episode 6: Biochemicals- Catalase and Coagulase

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Episode 5: 40x Objective- What do we use it for?

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Episode 4: Blood Culture Gram Stains

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Episode 3: Gram Stain morphology and reporting

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Episode 2- Gram stains

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Episode 1: Media

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An introduction