Microbiology Lab Week

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Across
  1. 3. Do not use to clean the reference disk
  2. 6. Antibiotic moved to CLSI Test/ Report Group A for P. aeruginosa
  3. 10. Report that provides internal diagnostics checks, including colorimetric and fluorometric calibration values, and environmental status
  4. 12. MicroScan reagent that has a 28 day expiration date once on board the WalkAway
  5. 13. The recommended media type used for inoculum preparation used for the RNID3 panel
  6. 15. Enterobacteriaceae organism with intrinsic resistance to GM and TO, but not AK.
  7. 16. Multi-drug resistance organism
  8. 17. Number of isolated colonies picked for Prompt inoculum prep method
  9. 18. CLSI Group U drug that is used primarily to treat urinary tract isolates
  10. 19. Detects the amount of liquid present in the reagent bottles
Down
  1. 1. Phenotypic resistance type when a ≥3 twofold dilution drop in an MIC value for the antibiotic tested with clavulanic acid as compared to the MIC value of that antibiotic tested alone
  2. 2. Plastic component located directly under the photodiode board, protects the photodiodes from caustic reagent fumes.
  3. 4. Drug class that should not be reported for CSF isolates
  4. 5. Improves the speed and efficiency of the LabPro databases if you observe a slowdown in performance.
  5. 7. Requires addition of 95% ethyl alcohol
  6. 8. Located outside of the dispense door that illuminates if any of the reagents, oil, or water reservoir levels are low or if the waste bottle is full.
  7. 9. Quality control option based on risk management for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) laboratories
  8. 11. ID QC organism ATCC 66028 used for the Rapid Yeast ID panel
  9. 14. Shows the number of organisms isolated and the percent inhibited for each antimicrobic tested