PathWays Case Study: Oct. 11

By apriljosselyn • October 11, 2016

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A nasopharyngeal (NP) swab collected from a 75-year-old female with fever, cough, sore throat, and body aches was submitted for a routine viral cell culture. After four days of incubation at 37°C, the following cytopathic effect (CPE) was observed in the primary rhesus monkey kidney cell line:

Emily Fernholz, MLS(ASCP)
Education Specialist, Clinical Microbiology
Mayo Clinic
Instructor in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Matthew  Binnicker, Ph.D.
Consultant, Division of Clinical Microbiology
Mayo Clinic
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

apriljosselyn

April Josselyn is a Marketing Channel Manager at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. She has worked at Mayo Clinic since 2012. Outside of work, April enjoys the outdoors and being "hockey mom" for her two sports-crazed boys.