Marc Couturier PhD, D(ABMM) 🕷🦠🔬

Huge congrats to Benjamin Bradley, MD, PhD, the 2026 PASCV Young Investigator Award recipient! 🏆 This award celebrates Ben's vital contributions to clinical virology early in his career. See you in Clearwater on April 29 for the presentation! 👏 #PASCV #Virology #Science

This was amazing work by an amazing team! Happy to see it rolling out and changing the game!

A prime welcome back to the northeast. This poor patient had a rip-roaring case of anaplasmosis diagnosed initially by blood smear and confirmed by PCR. The ticks are bad this year!!! (Removed these from my clothes with packing tape after a casual walk in the woods!)

Happy Medical Laboratory Professionals Week 2025 to all my amazing lab folks! Keep doing the amazing "dirty" work that nobody else sees. 🧪🧫🧬💩 🤜🔬🤛 @NorDxLab

This was a very fun experience to present 5 years of work in just a few minutes. But the audience was great and the discussions with colleagues afterwards was very enriching. The AI movement is huge in microbiology. The more work and the more experiences, the better it will be!

Really enjoying catching up with colleagues and learning new disciplines such as ASP, IP, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Never too old to learn new tricks 😀 Vienna is a wonderful host. If you are here at ESCMID 2025, please come say hi.

@SBtotheDub @ASMicrobiology ASTMH had a very similar and resolute statement to members. Nice to see leadership, strength, representation of membership, and courage. Take notes indeed!

Hey @ASMicrobiology - this is how it’s done….

@StephenTristram @ARUPLabs I took the images from the routine O&P that was sent to us. I do not have any clinical information except that the patient was from "Appalachia" and was REALLY sick. No PMH or underlying diagnosis provided. Just very sick was all we were provided with.

@Parasite_Power @ARUPLabs This is an amazing image. I've seen free-living females in really old stool before, but these look like parasitic females that should be in the mucosa. Do you have any more information about the image or the patient it came from?

When is Strongy, too much Strongy? Well, anytime... But especially...when moms look like they are taking their kids out to the park to play!? Three adult female Strongy and numerous L1 larvae. So much Strongy! #parasitology @ARUPLabs

This was a fun. The worm was barely recognizable as a worm. It vaguely looked like a proglottid, but the specimen was badly degraded. Clearing the tissue with some lactophenol exposed the genus-level ID. Taenia eggs in utero. Hooklets visible even! #Parasitology @ParasiteGal

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jc… Super excited for this new work our team published (Dr. Angela Ma now at Public Health Ontario & Blaine Mathison at ARUP!). UV autofluorescence microscopy is a great tool that I share pictures of here often 💡🔬🪩 #parasitology @ParasiteGal @ARUPLabs

Attending AMP 2024? Don’t miss this discussion on gastrointestinal parasites! Marc Couturier, PhD, D(ABMM), will review the role of multiplex molecular detection tests and discuss applications of nucleic acid testing for parasite detection. #AMP2024 #AMPath24

@SBtotheDub @aharrington1884 @ISDA Special Interest Group...I like then sound of that.

Great turnout of Lab Directors for the #clinicalmicrobiology meet up and possibly future interest group. Thanks ⁦@aharrington1884⁩ and ⁦@ISDA⁩ for setting this up, was great!! 😊 #IDWeek2024

@SBtotheDub Completely inaccurate and difficult to control, manual, human, subjective method. But yeah, A.I. is a problem... 🤦🏻‍♂️

Completely bonkers that FDA isn’t going to regulate things like comp fix but WILL require labs to comply with all the regulatory requirements for things like automating a manual process in an LDT. Great talk from Dr Relegeno #SCASM2024

Just another stool, another Strongyloides L1 larvae. 🪱 #parasitology @ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal

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Friday, Funday. This is what we consider...a whole lot of Dientamoeba fragilis! Mostly binucleate forms with variably fragmented karyosomes. #parasitology @ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal

@ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal These are larvae of Ixodes sp. One might assume I. scapularis based on geography, but the necessary features to key out larvae to species are difficult to discern.

Fun treat today in the lab. A bunch of ticks from Ohio, each smaller than a poppy seed. Looks like a skydiving formation 😆. ✔️ No eyes ✔️ Long mouthparts ✔️ Inverted anal groove ✔️ 6 legs. How would you report? #parasitology @ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal

@girlneedsanap @ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal Ixodes larvae is correct! Well done. Likely I. scapularis, but hard to key out to species with just larvae.

@Parasite_Power @ARUPLabs @ParasiteGal Would have to be larvae. It's a guess since I don't have all my resources in front of me!