Expires: May 8, 2025

Overview

This module reviews the characteristics of Select Agent organisms. Participants will read about Select Agents, safety considerations while reading plates, and growth morphologies of Select Agents, and then apply their learning with virtual case scenarios.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:

1. Recognize the role of culture plate reading in accidental laboratory exposures.
2. Demonstrate the new LID-ON plate reading technique to reduce accidental laboratory exposure.
3. Describe growth morphologies of Select Agent organisms.
4. Recognize organisms with similar growth patterns to Select Agents in cultures.

Training module

Intended audience

This module is appropriate for pathologists, medical technologists, medical technology students, medical students, residents, and fellows.

Content creator

Jessica Larsen, M(ASCP)
Supervisor, Microbiology Laboratory
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona

Content contributors

Credit

The following types of credit are offered:

ASCLS P.A.C.E.®

To obtain credit:

1. Review the entire module.
2. Complete the post-test and evaluation.
3. Generate and print your certificate.

ASCLS P.A.C.E.^® Credit

Mayo Clinic Laboratories is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® program. This program has been approved for a maximum of 0.5 P.A.C.E.® contact hours. The level of instruction for this program is basic.

Questions?

Contact us: mcleducation@mayo.edu.