Bactec Blood Culture machine

One of the big problems of treating this recently identified bacterium (which is the root cause of so many infections in newborns) is that it is difficult to culture, and difficult to grow in the lab. Once those are done, though, it can develop spores which, like Anthrax, might be fatal to the hospital staff and others who come in contact with it. Dr. Schiff has a strong difference of opinion from the CDC regarding the best way to handle such a potentially dangerous item. He is advocating Anthrax-level safety measures to handle it; whereas the CDC suggests normal level precautions for such substances until someone dies from it. Pictured is Sophia, one of the lab technicians at the ministry of health, with a state-of-the-art Bactec Blood Culture machine for the rapid on-site detection of a variety of bacterium.

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