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JCO

@jcomls

1 year

For MLS students. One of the ways you can process tissues for culture in microbiology

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@jcomls

3 years

How to Relocate to Republic of Ireland as a Medical Laboratory scientist

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2 years

My people, it would be our pleasure to have you as our guests! JCOMLS has succumbed to love😄😄😄. Come and celebrate this joyful moment with us at 042!!

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11 months

Obim has graduated!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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1 year

Let me tell you some truths the public needs to know too! I worked in a Microbiology Department of a Teaching Hospital owned by the Federal government of Nigeria! Doctors forced themselves to be rostered to do night calls as Medical lab scientists. These guys do rubbish

The_Bearded_Dr_Sina

@the_beardedsina

1 year

This thread will probably trigger a lot of Nigerians. But sometimes the truth needs to be told Typhoid , Malaria & Widal tests are probably one of biggest scams and cash cows in the Nigerian market A big perpetrator isn't just the hospitals, the masses too Please read & share

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I need clarifications, from medical lab scientists. Which profession is depicted in this image? Would you say it's medical lab scientist?

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@jcomls

2 years

For student Medical laboratory scientists.If you truly desire to japa later, check if this stuff I compiled can guide you. Slide 1: The bigger picture

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@jcomls

1 year

In the lab with white coats and gloves,Medical Scientists work with love. With precision and skill they toil, in search of answers through their work. Their work is vital, their impact vast,saving lives and health , first and last! In MLS I stan💃💃💃

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@Onyekachi_20

1 year

If you're a med lab scientist Quote this tweet with your Pictures(on duty and off duty) Let us appreciate you

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1 year

Medical lab Scientists What you see here are bacterial colonies on a culture media plate. Each one looking like a dot is called a colony. Each colony contains thousands of bacterial cells

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2 years

For student Medical laboratory scientists, Welcome to Birmingham!🤸🤸. I just want to remind you that, your profession is enough to make you live the kind of life you want to live! Just like Robert Langdon of Dan Brown, I love to travel a lot,MLS is giving me that opportunity!

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Pinopino JCO is +1 today! My peace of mind 🥰🥰 Chukwu agozigom ofuma💃 Help me wish Obim, a happy birthday, my people!! Chai, asa mpete!!!

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1 year

Hustling for urgent 2k. We go again, this week!

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2 years

Difficult choice in MLS If you have dated 5 girls or guys same time, when you want to settle for one for marriage, you will understand this thread. This is for Medical Laboratory Science students in the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd years. A few students have asked me this question in dm

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6 months

Happy international Medical Laboratory Science day to all us. We hardly get the flowers we deserve, but we will continue to tell the world our own story!

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5 months

This is not from textbook! I made the smear and stained it !😋 What makes our job easier are the tools available to us. Anything less, you will be "suffering"😔

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@jcomls

2 years

Back to lab!! I wish to thank all of you for your support, gifts, prayers and warm wishes for my wedding. Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to meet with some of us who came. I hope someday, we will. Thank you guys. Fam, JCO is back 😄

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2 years

First frame is doughnut, second is buns. If you look at the doughnut, you will notice a hole in the centre. If you look at the buns, you will notice small small particles on it's body. If you are doing CSF cell count, look out for doughnuts (RBC) and buns(WBC). Can you

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11 months

BORSA This is for you if you work in a microbiology lab. When Staphylococcus aureus is isolated from a patient, doctors would want antibiotic susceptibility test to be done. The reason is to know the appropriate drug to use in the patient treatment or management to

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2 years

The wishes of every micro scientist!

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2 years

Let me tell you some things you might likely experience when you get work abroad as a medical laboratory scientist.

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1 year

@Mr_franks9 Omoh, like seriously ?

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2 years

As a medical lab scientist, and you are confused as to how a standard lab coat looks like, look no more. The length, size and cuff are WHO approved!😀😀 @paulchiomaogodo , happy birthday and more wins!

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2 years

This is for students. Learn from my mistake due to ignorance. In Minna, in a private lab, I rejected a tissue sample because the requested test was "mcs". As Oga lab ,I said tissues are for histology. You don't culture tissues. Somewhere in the south Eastern Nigeria, in a big

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2 years

There is joy that comes with seeing this like this. To us that work behind the scene, this gives us hope that the patient in the ward, gonna be ok all things being equal.

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8 months

How Haemophilus influenzae looks like on a chocolate agar. It looks shiny or like a drop of water.

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1 year

Did you miss Medical Lab Science Week? Do not worry, here is a gallery of beautiful and handsome scientists that flooded our timeline during the week! Enjoy!

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@jcomls

2 years

Medical Laboratory Scientists, It is not our fault at all. Went for a Blood parasitology training yesterday and got some pix for us !! E no suppose hard aswear!! Is this one not beautiful?

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2 years

We only ask for the right tools, good environment, and good pay😀, the rest? we know what to do inside the lab! If you are a lab scientist, God bless your hustle !! You are the consultant of all consultants !!

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1 year

For my Naija scientists, job hunting .

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1 year

For MLS students. The first thing you do when you receive some consumables like culture media is to quarantine it(not safe for use yet). Second thing: Test the media(batch acceptance). If it passes, you can proceed to use it. This is standard practice.

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2 years

Interview tip for Medical Laboratory Scientists. Irrespective of your specialty as a Medical Laboratory Scientist, take a closer look on this tip and check if it makes any sense to you.

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@jcomls

1 year

MRSA This is for students who have an interest in microbiology. This is also for you if you work in a microbiology lab with limited resources. It is also for you if you work in a private microbiology lab where there is no access to a medical doctor.

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2 years

For Medical laboratory Scientists, download this book from Keep this book on your phone, and constantly refer to it when need be. Don't go and be reading it from page to page, you will get tired 😀😀 I use it often and I enjoy it. You may like it.

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@jcomls

1 year

Pay attention. I did manual sensitivity test on a Streptococcus sppeices and got this result the next day. Something is not adding up. Can you guess? If you can't , continue reading.

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2 years

Medical Laboratory Scientists.

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@jcomls

4 years

@Eyanolowo1 @aproko_doctor @NnadiekweC This is their annoyance. BUA by this act has openly prevented them from milking the country of 400 billion!

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11 months

Have you heard of Fecal transplant? I mean poo or stool or shit transplant! This is not a kidney or liver transplant we know but poo!! It might sound a bit weird but it's not very new. Fecal transplant is a unique treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.

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2 years

Money money money !!! Aluta continua....home and abroad 😀😀

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2 years

Medical Doctors. As a medical laboratory scientist, have you taken time to study the Doctors you are working with in your facility? Keep the hullabaloo aside for now. Every practicing Medical Doctor always READ !! It's unlikely to wake up a Doctor and ask him question in

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@jcomls

9 months

Quality stain Good microscope Good camera. What do you lack to reproduce this 🤔🤔 Are you ready for a challenge 😀😀

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@jcomls

1 year

This is for students and interns in medical microbiology laboratories. Test: Slide coagulase 2&3 : Pateint samples 7&8: Negative Controles

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@jcomls

2 years

For students ONLY We learn by association. Slide 1👇👇👇

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7 months

When you make a Thick film for malaria Microscopy, and place the slide over a newspaper print, the printed letters should be visible for a correctly made film. If you don't have a way of checking the quality of your thick films, use this one. Thank you !

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@jcomls

2 years

Congratulations, Emmanuel. Please clear road for one of the freshest scientists in town! May you succeed in your journey as a Scientist.

Emmanuel Moses🇳🇬

@Moses48844452

2 years

Latest Scientist in town. BMLS/AMLSN 2021 Set Uniben God did it✨✨✨

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1 year

Do you run a private lab? One man show? If yes, read this. Sample: Skin swab (right hand) Clinical details: infected dog bite Lab result: Pasteurella stomatis, isolated. It's not enough to own and run a lab as an individual (medical lab scientist). While you are doing so,

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2 years

Campylobacter (jejuni) on CCDA. CCDA: Charcoal Cefoperozone Deoxycholate Agar. This is one of the media in use in stool bench for Campy isolation.

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1 year

First choose your interest or specialty you understand better. Second , with Japa in mind, Chemistry, Hematology/Blood transfusion come first. Reason: you have high chance of getting into call register early (more pay). Next is Microbiology. In small hospitals, those in

Sir Dickson

@Wizarab10

1 year

Please advise 🙏🏾

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1 year

For Medical lab scientists (not students 😉) When you apply for CORU Recognition, there will be 3 likely outcomes

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1 year

For lab scientist especially those in microbiology. You may (not) know this. First, what would you say is the full meaning of MRSA? From the full meaning, which drug(s) would you use today, to establish that, an organism is suspected to be MRSA? First to get it before 13:25

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@jcomls

2 years

Drugs and my relationships with girls in the university. I began "following" girls in 2009 when I was in second year as a medical laboratory scientist in University of Nigeria , Enugu campus. There was Cynthia(Cyndy) from faculty of law who never agreed to be my lover from

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2 years

There is more to just running a lab test. Whatever you do in the lab as a medical laboratory scientist, try to understand exactly what you are doing. Some things you neglect can embarrass you or affect your performance in an interview.

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2 years

Medical laboratory scientist students, (A) what do you think this sample is? (B) Name 3 things you think you can see from the photo? First 5 scientists with the right answers get a reward of 1k data each! Second pix is for clarification, focus more on the first!

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@jcomls

3 years

Tell me the importance or benefit of SOP in the lab? I was asked this question three times in three different interviews. Before you continue, close your eyes, and answer it, then continue the thread😀😀

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@jcomls

1 year

Mueller Hinton (MH)agar is what is widely used for manual sensitivity test for non fastidious bacteria in a microbiology lab. If you buy new MH agar or prepare new ones, you must do "batch acceptance" as shown in the attached pix👇👇

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1 year

This story might interest you- MLS Kachi is a senior medical lab scientist. He works with Union Diagnostics, Yaba. Antigen is a chief medical lab scientist. He works with Afriglobal, Yaba.

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@jcomls

2 years

Who did this to us?

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1 year

If you work on respiratory samples like throat swab, when you see this on a Chocolate agar, you are most likely dealing with Haemophilus influenzae bacteria or other species of Haemophilus. If you do not have the means for proper ID, do Gram, it's a GNB /coccobacilli.

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2 years

Line manager :JCO, did you BEAD the klebsiella pneumonia from the csf yesterday? JCO: sure, I did. If you don't have idea what the conversation above is all about , this tweet is for you. Follow me .

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1 year

We have closed shop today, we go again on Monday! Happy weekend Scientists, Technicians, and Assistants

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He exudes elegance from head to toe. Clean-shaven and imperially slim! Congratulations, scientist @scott_thankgod .

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@jcomls

2 years

For information purpose. Have you ever heard of "ommaya reservoir" in your practice as a medical laboratory scientist? If you have worked with CSF samples before, chances are that you may have had to do with ommaya reservoir.

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7 months

Gram stain Pus from knee joint.

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2 years

Mastering the challenge: Tips for focusing difficult CSF Gram stains. The most difficult Gram stain to focus is CSF Gram stain, especially those CSF samples that are not cloudy or blood-stained

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1 year

War between E coli and sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim. Some weird things that make some of us smile in the lab😃😃

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1 year

From morning until 15 min to close , then CSF arrives. You encouraged yourself that you will finish on or before 15 min and head home, then total wbc count shows you must do differential cell count 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Scientist proposes, sample disposes 😀😀

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7 months

Candida albicans On Potato Dextrose Agar.

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2 years

12 good months today!! Fear laced with excitement, nervousness and apprehension for a first time traveller gripped mr Johnson , 12 months ago, today! I now smile looking back! Thank you lord!!

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2 years

Power of colour Same bacteria, grown in different agar. This is Salmonella sp from positive blood culture. You see the milk-coloured plate? it is a chromogenic agar for salmonella identification. And that colour tells us what we want to know !

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@jcomls

1 year

#MLSTwitterCommunity , could you recommend good textbook(s) you have used,for a 300 level MLS student in: Hematology Chemical Pathology Histopathology Immunology?

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@jcomls

3 years

Why I failed Immunology Interview. You are a Medical Laboratory Scientist? Check this out .

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@jcomls

2 years

Urine culture. Same bacteria, different, food(media), different colour. The same applies to us, humans. What we eat or are exposed to determines what we express. With good food and a beautiful environment, all of us go shine. Nah condition make crayfish bend. We go make am!

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1 year

My mum, 75, was given this blood. Her blood group is O Rh Negative. The Doctors and Nurses say, there is no issue with that. Do you think I should not be worried 🤔

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@jcomls

3 years

Are you a medical laboratory scientist who is currently doing your NYSC and have hope of travelling to work as a medical laboratory scientist? When you finish will there be an evidence that you worked as a scientist for a whole year?

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@jcomls

2 years

Beyond Blood agar, chocolate and McConkey.

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@jcomls

2 years

What is batch acceptance in Medical Microbiology Laboratory? Batch acceptance is part of quality control (QC) in a medical laboratory, but I will focus in microbiology. It’s the test(s) done in the lab to ensure consumables received are fit for use for patients.

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@jcomls

1 year

How Salmonella species colonies look like on a chromogenic agar(SALM agar). Even with this colour, advanced laboratories still go further for proper identification. This is more reason, misidentification and or misdiagnosis is very reduced.

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@jcomls

2 years

Have you ever used any of these before? Or their relatives 🤔🤔

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2 years

Matters arising for medical laboratory scientists. If you are asked to mention common multidrug resistant organisms MDROs, you are likely going to say: 1 MRSA 2 ESBL 3 VRE 4 CRE/CPE Why would you say CRE/CPE? Are they the same or different?🤔🤔

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2 years

As a medical laboratory scientist, I work with stool samples for various tests including fecal calprotectin on a daily basis. Fecal calprotectin is a valuable tool in the diagnosis and management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). #lablife #fecalcalprotectin #IBD .

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6 months

You know this organism, and I can bet on it ! From a stool sample.

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2 years

What the Gram stain says , vs what PCR says . Sample: Positive blood culture Gram satain

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1 year

How Haemophilus influenzae bacterial colonies look like on a chocolate agar

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1 year

Theory is not enough. "aureus" means golden. I decided to culture 2 known species of bacteria on a blood agar. 1 Staphylococcus aureus 2 Micrococcus lutens

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8 months

Sample: Throat swab Media: Blood agar Incubation: in C02, 24 hrs Disc: Bacitracin Colony: Tiny/small Hemolysis: Beta hemolytic. Can you name the unlikely bacteria here?

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8 months

If you see this tweet, there is about 50% chance that you have not used this in practice😃 This is of course for MLS working in MCB Image: culture media.

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5 months

Do you work in microbiology? But you cannot explain what the image below is; I know the kind of lab you are working with😀😀 It is called atachiri lab!! Yes, you heard me🤣🤣 Ah, don vex; e ma binu, ndo, yihakuri. I am joking!!

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2 years

For senior/chief medical lab scientists/lab managers This is for you if you have scientists or Technicians working under you. So read through

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2 years

Come closer if you are a medical lab scientist . Do you remember Charles Dickens? Have a look on the screenshots😃😃 1/3

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1 year

Multiple Drug resistance. Multiple Drug Resistance Organisms (MDROs) are a big thing globally. Unfortunately, it's difficult to identify true MDRO in primary health care centers and numerous private laboratories across the nation that do not have the means for proper ID.

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2 years

A professor of law (I think), in this app mentioned that her take home salary is 400k. But you are a Medical Laboratory Scientist (student especially) thinking you have read or reading yeye course, I want to remind you ,that you are not. If you are young and can hustle to leave,

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5 months

Have you really thought of why they ask us not to keep Pipette like this after use? Will the pipette spoil if I continue to keep it this way ?

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11 months

The time to resume regular tweets has come! Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Be careful, you might bite your tongue! 😄

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2 years

Medical laboratory scientists, you can always do your CPD online here Go there, create an account and start! Life is beautiful!

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2 years

Bia Intern ,go to Blood bank and tell them to give you blood for our coagulase test. Tell them Chief JCO sent you. Do fast, let's check if this is Staph aureus or CNS. Your mates somewhere 👇👇😀😀

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For students. When you buy antibiotics to use for sensitivity tests in your lab, you must test that antibiotics first( Batch acceptance) to ensure it's good to be used. First, check the instruction on how to do this. In an organised lab, this information could be in an

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I tweeted this in July last year, you may need this as a guide to save money towards traveling out as a medical laboratory scientist. Check it out, new followers.

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@jcomls

2 years

For student Medical laboratory scientists.If you truly desire to japa later, check if this stuff I compiled can guide you. Slide 1: The bigger picture

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From my experience, I have noticed that most mucoid colonies on McConkey belong to any of : Klebsiella Enterobacter Escherichia coli, in that order In the attached images, one is E coli, the other is Klebsiella. If your facility does not have a means of proper identification

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You won't believe that what you see on the left(colonies) is what you see on the right(microscopy-wet prep) Are you surprised 🤔🤔 I was. I couldn't believe it when a colleague with a lot of excitement brought my attention to it

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2 years

This is for student medical laboratory scientist (especially) and those who are not currently or never practiced bench MCB. This is all about urine microscopy. Zoom in to appreciate each slide. Let us know if you have contrary opinion.

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This is for student medical laboratory scientists. As we wait for ASSU, which sample would you pick after looking at the instruction? What informed your decision? 😀😀

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