Microbiology Lab Week

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Across
  1. 4. Required for Staph, BH strep and S. pneumo isolates that test resistant to eryhromycin and susceptible to clindamycin.
  2. 6. Small gram positive beta hemolytic rod that resembles Grp B beta strep colony morphology
  3. 9. Enterobacteriaceae organism species with intrinsic resistance to GM and TO, but not AK
  4. 14. Antimicrobial agent moved to the Test /Report Group A for P. aeruginosa in the 2016 CLSI document
  5. 18. This acrylic plate located under the photodiode sensor AD board, protects the photodiodes from caustic reagent fumes.
  6. 19. Instrument optical system that permits use of the Rapid POS ID panel
  7. 21. New CMS quality control option based on risk management for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)laboratories.
  8. 22. Due to the lysed horse blood supplement,this step is recommended to minimize possible uneven filling of the microstrep panel wells.
  9. 24. Fluoroquinolone antibiotic used as a treatment option with S. pneumoniae isolates
  10. 25. Do not use this to clean the reference disk
  11. 26. Phenotypic resistance type that demonstrates ≥3 twofold dilution drop in an MIC value for the antibiotic tested with clavulanic acid as compared to MIC value of that antibiotic tested alone.
Down
  1. 1. Epidemiology report that shows the number of organisms isolated and the percent inhibited for each antimicrobic tested
  2. 2. Scheduled maintenance that helps to improve speed and efficiency of LabPro database when a slow down in system performance is observed
  3. 3. Antibiotic contraindicated for those isolates from the respiratory tract
  4. 5. Walkaway instrument component that delivers reagent into the panel wells
  5. 7. The number of isolated colonies used for the Prompt inoculation method
  6. 8. Hard coded alert that fires for Staph isolates when Penicillin MIC testing <=0.12 mcg/mL
  7. 10. VP Reagent that requires 95% ethyl alcohol for reconstitution
  8. 11. Multi-drug resistance organism
  9. 12. Approved organism group for the inducible clindamycin screen well on Pos Combo 33 Panel
  10. 13. CLSI Group U antimicrobial agent that is used primarily to treat UTIs
  11. 15. Type of inoculum preparation method option for dried overnight MicroScan panels
  12. 16. MicroScan report that provides internal diagnostics checks and environmental status
  13. 17. Instrument adds 1 drop of this reagent to the TDA well on the gram negative panel
  14. 20. Frequency of cleaning the WalkAway air intake filter
  15. 23. Cephamycin drug contraindicated for use with CSF isolates