Friday, November 21, 2008

Not chicken pox, but.... Flavobacterium and Chryseobacterium indologenes?

Both of these two completely bizarre gram-negative bacteria grew out of Naomi's cultures from her mysterious face bumps last week. Not exactly anyone's second guess. Since the bumps went away, they were probably contaminants. But seriously, how the heck did either one even get into the lab in the first place to contaminate Naomi's culture? Sounds like a very exotic lab to me!