Re: photos and videos

Hey those are great images! I see some of the same patterns in mine, like when the hair/filamentous bacteria look like a beaded necklace.

Here's a recent quick abstract about a "beaded necklace bacteria" found in a MRSA patient, they also called it evidence of "bacterial vegetation"... Which just means bacterial ~infection~ right?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22329689


Echocardiography. 2012 Apr;29(4):E97-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01619.x. Epub 2012 Feb 14.
Beaded necklace-like image observed by real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiograhy as evidence of bacterial vegetations in a dialysis catheter.
Ponce SG, Roldan CA.
Source
Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA. sgponce@salud.unm.edu
Abstract
We present images observed in a patient with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia from a hemodyalisis catheter and demonstrate the superiority of real time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (RT3D-TEE) over 2D-TEE at identifying catheter-associated infected vegetations. Other studies have reported RT3D-TEE as an improved modality to identify and characterize intracardiac structures. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no reports describing the specific characteristics of bacterial vegetations in a dialysis catheter. RT3D-TEE could have a central role in the diagnosis of catheter-related blood stream infections, especially given the increased number of hemodyalisis-dependent patients and increased incidence of infections.

© 2012, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.