Let's Talk Micro
Let's Talk Micro
Luis Plaza
Episode 35: Talking Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica
24 minutes Posted Feb 25, 2022 at 12:00 am.
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Wohlfahrtiimonas what? Have you heard about this organism? It is a gram negative rod and it is very unusual. In this episode Dr. Paul Luethy from the University of Maryland School of Medicine comes to the podcast to discuss a case regarding this organism. How is it identified? Does it grow on standard media? What about susceptibilities? Tune in to this episode to find out.

The case was published in the Emergent Infectious Diseases journal from the CDC .

Link: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/12/21-0327_article