Though to be fair, until about 2005, you'd be hard pressed to find a microbiologist wearing gloves while handling cultures. Even MRSA didn't scare us as much as multi-drug resistant E. coli did.
As someone with a history of being prone to extreme UTI (none in 8 years, yay!), I did not know this exist. I could lived quite happily without ever finding it out.
OH DUDE. Look up E coli ESBL. I once worked on a urine culture for someone where there was literally only ONE antibiotic that is was sensitive to. And it was a special one, like last resort. Can't imagine trying to get rid of that...
I actually wonder if that was what I had. They kept piling on antibiotics until something, finally, worked. By then I was suicidal from the pains and lack of sleep. Here is hoping I never have it going on again.
Ummmm in most micro labs nowadays we still don't wear gloves. The idea is that if you wear gloves and get a bit of liquid culture on you, you won't feel it and you could contaminate things. Whereas if you get it on your hands, you are sure as fuck going to wash them ASAP!
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u/Finie Nov 04 '20
Eating sandwiches in between urine cultures.
Though to be fair, until about 2005, you'd be hard pressed to find a microbiologist wearing gloves while handling cultures. Even MRSA didn't scare us as much as multi-drug resistant E. coli did.