CDC PHIL Images From This Week

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PHIL Images From This Week

14684 02/27/2015 08:00 AM EDT This 1979 image depicted a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) facility  in Fort Collins, Colorado, which is the home of the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne  Disease (DVBD).

16876 02/26/2015 08:00 AM EDT This illustration depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated  image of four multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.  The artistic recreation was based upon scanning electron micrographic  imagery. Note the presence of numbers of thin, diaphanous fimbriae  emanating from the organisms’ cell wall, as well as a single, corkscrew-shaped  flagellum, which provides for the bacteria’s unipolar mode of motility.

0016802 02/25/2015 08:00 AM EDT This image depicts Centers for Disease Control (CDC) microbiologist Kitty Anderson holding up two Petri dish culture plates growing bacteria in the presence of discs containing various antibiotics. The isolate on the left plate is susceptible to the antibiotics on the discs, and is therefore, unable to grow adjacent to the discs. The plate on the right was inoculated with a Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) bacterium that proved to be resistant to the antibiotics tested.

0018170 02/24/2015 08:00 AM EDT Produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases  (NIAID), this digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM)  depicts a blue-colored, human white blood cell (WBC) known  specifically as a neutrophil, interacting with two pink-colored, rod-shaped,  multidrug-resistant (MDR)Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, which are known  to cause severe hospital-acquired, nosocomial infections.

0016804 02/23/2015 08:00 AM EDT This 2014 image depicts Centers for Disease Control (CDC)  microbiologist Johannetsy Avillan holding up an opened Petri dish culture plate,  demonstrating the results of a modified Hodge test, used to identify resistance in  bacteria known as Enterobacteriaceae. Bacteria that are resistant to carbapenems  (Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)), which are considered  “last resort” antibiotics, produce a distinctive clover-leaf shaped growth pattern,  as seen in this case.