• Coronavirus spreads to the USA
• Support for vaccines is waning
• Can water filters increase bacterial counts?
• Emerging pan-resistant Candida auris
• Phraseology: Whippersnapper
• Quotes from Kobe Bryant
• Rapid identification of GC
• HardyCHROM SS for ease of stool pathogen recovery

• Coronavirus Updates in February
• Antibiotic Resistance in Food Items
• Mites and Viruses Take a Toll on Bee Populations
• Phraseology: Eat Crow
• Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
• New Hardy Disks
• HardyCHROM HUrBi for quick and easy detection of urinary pathogens

• Will the new coronavirus go awaywhen the weather warms up?
• AloeSafe hand sanitizing gel
• Coronavirus Update for March
• Enlisting AI for Drug Discovery
• Tests for COVID-19 and Shortages
• Quotes from Barry Marshall
• Hardy Diagnostics Viral Transport Medium

• Will the new coronavirus go away when the weather warms up?
• AloeSafe hand sanitizing gel
• Coronavirus Update for April
• Enlisting AI for Drug Discovery
• Quotes from Ray Bradbury
• Phraseology: Pulling the wool over you eyes
• Hardy Diagnostics Viral Transport Medium

May

• Can Vitamin D be useful against COVID-19?
• Hardy introduces an accurate antibody test kit for COVID-19
• The microbiology of dog and cat bites
• Phraseology: “Kangaroo Court”
• Quotes from Georgia O’Keeffe
• Using UV light to sanitize N95 masks
• Detection of bacterial pneumonia – ImmuView
• Helicobacter infections may be protective
• The DuraRack for durable petri plate management
• Coronavirus update
• Using BCYE Agar for Legionella season

• A new drug against Gram negative rods? Glateramir acetate
• Bananas becoming extinct due to Fusarium wilt?
• Anaerobic Microbiology catalog
• Trio Bas Air Samplers
• StrepPro for strep grouping
• Phraseology: Fit to be tied
• Quotes from Galileo

• Can certain gut bacteria promote cancer?
• Trehalose and C. difficile – a not so sweet combination
• Tooth-brushing reduces hospital acquired pneumonias
• Quotes from Albert Einstein
• Bio-Kid Kit for science projects
• The Loop Caddy – a better way!
• Rapid test methods
• Phraseology – “Pleased as punch”

• Bacteriophages – A new approach to antimicrobials
• Carrot Broth – No tiles needed
• Stephen Hawking quotes
• Kiyoshi Shiga – Discoverer of Shigella
• Trio Bas – The best in air monitoring
• Influenza product from Hardy
• Bio-Kid – For an exciting science project!

• Vietnam vets and parasitic diseases
• Financial impact of resistant microorganisms
• Quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
• Phraseology: Charlie Horse
• TrioBas for air sampling
• Carrot Broth one step
• Chromogenic media
• Rapid test methods

• The origin of the Black Plague
• Microbiomes in Concrete
• HardyCHROM SS – eliminate Proteus!
• Carrot Broth One Step
• Envirotrans – new longer swab!
• Phraseology – “Jay Walkers”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
• GramPRO automated gram stainer

• Winning the War on Biofilms
• Can Ebola be Stopped with Merck’s New Vaccine?
• John Steinbeck
• Stool cultures with no interference from Proteus!
• Easy Sample Collection with EnviroTrans.

• Antibiotic Resistance in Viet Nam
• Oil prevents biofilms on cookware
• AnaeroGRO for better recovery of anaerobes
• Trio Bas – the best air sampler
• Plazomicin – now available
• Carrot Broth One Step – no tiles needed!
• Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

• Genital Mycoplasmas – why testing is needed
• E. coli as Probiotics
• Phraseology – “Bury the Hatchet”
• Ogden Nash quotes
• New Antibiotics, Plazomicin, etc
• HardyCHROM SS – for stool cultures

• Is Dandruff a bacterial disease?
• How does the Keto Diet affect your microbiome?
• Quotes from G.K. Chesterton
• Hardy Goes Green!
• New Antibiotic disks from Hardy
• Phraseology: Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

• Leptospirosis in Sea Lions
• Kirby Bauer AST – the Gold Standard
• New antibiotics
• Quotes from Dave Barry
• HardyCHROM products
• E. coli O157 outbreak from romaine lettuce

• Are antibiotics in our orange juice?
• Can a probiotic be used to treat cholera?
• New antibiotics now available
• Tri Bas air samplers – simply the best!
• Compact Dry for easy colony counts
• Phraseology – “Throw you hat into the ring”
• Quotes from Nikola Tesla
• Products for flu season

• Bacteria providing a lift
• Rapid Strep Grouping
• Hardy Purchases QuickSlide
• The Kissing Bug
• HUrBi – What more could you ask for in a urine plate?
• Clinical Microbiology Seminar in Palm Springs
• LabPRO Lab Coats

• New weapons against Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI)
• Hardy releases a new culture media catalog
• Fun facts on leap year
• Update on the Zika virus
• The Pasteur team – a tribute to Marie Pasteur
• Quotes from Calvin Coolidge
• Rapid strep identification – StrepPRO
• Stock organism catalog
• PYR for rapid Group A Strep detection
• Compact Dry for plate counts
• Making sense of the new IQCP regulations

• Interference from Proteus eliminated!
• Can we use bacteria to create new habitats in the sand?
• New Culture Media Catalog
• Darryl Zanuck American film producer
• Compact Dry…Do you do plate counts?
• The Antibiotic Apocalypse Explained…
• Environmental Monitoring…Contact Plates
• Bob Hope 1903 ~ 2003
• Do you do Growth Promotion Studies?

• Elizabeth King and her discovery of her namesake bacteria – Outbreak in Wisconsin
• HardyCHROM SS reduces time with stool cultures
• AneroGRO for better recovery of anaerobes
• Identification of Streps with StrepPRO
• Better gram staining with GramPRO 1
• Investigation of Foodborne Illness – Listeria outbreak at Dole
• CRITERION – for the best in dehydrated culture media
• Contact plates for the pharma industry
• George Gershwin quotes

• How to Make Better Gram Stains
• Bacteriophage Therapy – Another Approach
• Colistin Resistance in E. coli – Another Superbug
• AnaeroGRO – for Better Growth
• CarboFerm – for GC Identification
• Automated Stainers
• HardyCHROM SS – No Interference from Proteus!
• EnviroTrans for Surface Monitoring
• C.S. Lewis Quotes

• Alzheimer’s caused by infectious disease?
• Pocket sized microscopes – the next big thing
• Dirty Driers – hand air dryers spread contamination
• Compact Dry for total counts
• Control organisms for QC
• TransPRO for better transport and recovery
• AnaeroGRO for better growth of anaerobes
• HardyCHROM SS – no interference from Proteus!
• SpeedStreaks for quick inoculation
• Phraseology – “Shot of Whiskey”
• GramPRO 80 for fast slide processing
• New culture media catalog available
• Quotes from Muhammad Ali

• Gram Stains… Consistent and Fast
• The Patient Safety Atlas
• New Culture Media Catalog
• Interference from Proteus eliminated!…
• Footwear Sanitizer SmartStep
• Detect a variety of food pathogens in less than 10 hours?
• “Knock on Wood”
• Could you be missing important anaerobes?
• Virchow: A Virtual Genius
• Peter Drucker Quotes

• The microbiome of breast tissue
• Triclosan in hand soap banned by FDA
• Mercury in vaccines – still used?
• Crystal Dx Xpress – for food pathogen detection
• AnaeroGRO – best way to culture anaerobes
• MicroBioLogics – QC organisms
• HardyCHROM SS – now inhibits Proteus
• GramPRO 1 – for consistent automated staining
• Contact Plates – for surface monitoring
• TransPRO – for better specimen collection
• Compact Dry – an alternative for plate counts
• Marie Curie Quotes

• Manuka Honey – the sweetest antibiotic
• Do you heat or methanol fix your slides?
• GramPRO 1 for consistent Gram staining
• HardyCHROM SS NoPRO – that’s no Proteus!
• HardyCHROM MRSA – brightest colors!
• HardyCHROM Candida – reliable yeast ID
• Crystal Xpress for food Pathogen ID
• Quotes from ee. cummings

• Hardy’s new Chromogenic Medium for ESBL
• Prebiotics- Good sense or Nonsense?
• GramPRO 1 for consistent Gram staining
• Reader Comments on Heat vs. Methanol Fixation
• Trio Bas Air Samplers- now with 3 heads!
• MBL Control Organisms
• Contact Plates
• Compact Dry
• Alan Turing Quotes

• C diff Banana Broth for environmental testing is launched
• Clostridium difficile – facts about the worst cause of HAIs
• HardyCHROM ESBL to detect “Superbugs”
• Automated Gram stainers from QuickSlide
• Trio Bas Air Samplers- now with 3 heads!
• Trio Bas air samplers – now with Bluetooth
• Resistant bacteria emerging from the sewer
• Control organisms from MBL
• Quotes from Steve Wozniak

• Candida auris– a new superbug?
• Denka Sieken Antisera
• HardyCHROM ESBL to detect “Superbugs”
• Automated Gram stainers from QuickSlide
• C. Diff Banana Broth for the detection of Clostridium difficile
• Nikon’s Small World Competition
• In memoriam: Paul Schreckenberger, PhD
• Trio Bas Microbial Air Samplers
• HardyCHROM MRSA and ESBL

• Retail Microbiology – Microbiome Reports for Consumers
• The Antimicrobial Properties of Metal, by Hsiung
• CryoSavers™ for Freezer Stocks
• Nitrocef MatchBook™ – for Susceptibility Testing of Anaerobes
• CRITERION™ Powdered Media
• Super Bowl Trivia
• Phraseology – “Pulling the Wool Over Ones Eyes”
• Survey on the Federal Minimum Wage
• Quotes from Thomas à Kempis

• AloeSafe™ Hand Sanitizer
• CRE Infection from an Endoscopic Procedure
• The Miracle Glove
• Can Bacteria Tell Time?
• Hardy Diagnostics an Employee Owned Company
• CRITERION™ Dehydrated Culture Media
• Winter Olympics Trivia
• Quotes from Louis Pasteur

• Black Plague Claims the Life of Microbiologist
• Smog in Beijing May Contain Airborne Bacteria
• HardyCHROM™ SS Cuts Stool Culture Workload
• HardyCHROM™ MRSA for Brighter Colors, Easier Read-out
• Arcanobacterium – An Important Cause of Pharyngitis
• TransPRO™ Swabs for Better Recovery and Release
• Survey – Should incandescent bulbs be a crime?
• Quotes from Ludwig Van Beethoven

• Fungi Make Beautiful Music – Rivaling the Stradivarius
• Dogs, Dust, and Dampening Allergies
• HardyCHROM™ MRSA – for Brighter Colors Development
• HardyCHROM™ SS – Better way to Detect Salmonella and Shigella
• Triclosan Promotes Nasal Colonization
• Hardy Mini Catalogs
• Free Download of “Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory”
• Hardy’s Healthy Happy Sheep – Source of our Blood
• Phraseology – Hissy Fit
• Survey – Was the ban on incandescent bulbs a good thing?
• Quotes from Bob Dylan

• Naegleria – Brain Infections Caused by Ameba
• Total Fix® – The Ultimate O&P; Transport
• Bacteria Found in Placentas
• Cordyceps Growing from Arthropods (video)
• Using Trees to Filter Water
• HardyCHROM™ SS – The Best Way to Screen Stools
• Hardy Mini Catalogs
• Easy Environmental Test for Salmonella and Listeria
• Survey – Should we screen all new patients for MRSA?
• Quotes from Elon Musk

• Summertime Hazards and Infections
• The Mysterious “Angel Glow” from Luminescent Bacteria in War Wounds
• Gum Disease can Cause Oral Cancer
• Schreckenberger Seminar Available on Video
• HardyDisks™ for Susceptibility Testing
• HardyCHROM™ SS for Stool Cultures
• Survey on Screening for MRSA in Hospitals
• Quotes from Plutarch

• Ebola Virus – Worst Outbreak in Africa
• Eggs – Should they be Refrigerated?
• Prostate Biopsy – Screening for Cipro Resistant E. Coli
• Schreckenberger Seminar Available on Video
• Phraseology – “Running the Guantlet”
• Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Microbial Fuel Cells
• Foldable Microscopes
• Vaccinations Schedules
• Compact Dry™ for Colony Counts
• HardyCHROM™ MRSA
• Phraseology – “To Run Amok”
• Quotes from John Muir

• Hardy Anounces New Online “Chat” Feature
• Compact Dry™ for Total Counts
• Can Bacteria be Used to Fight Cancer?
• Which smells worse, cotton or synthetic?
• Vaccine Ingredients
• Rosalind Franklin: Co-Discoverer of DNA Structure
• Rapid PYR Test
• Cyclospora Found in Cilantro
• Phraseology – “A Flash in the Pan”

• New Treatment Methods for Ebola… There is Hope!
• Cleaning up Ancient Artifacts with Mercury Eating Bacteria
• Answers to Questions Regarding Ebola
• StrepPro™ – Latex Agglutination
• TransPRO™ – New HydraFlock® Technology
• Phraseology – “Divide and Conquer”
• Quotes from Robin Williams

• Is Urine Sterile?
• Top 11 Causes of Food Poisoning
• HardyCHROM™ Candida
• Rapid Test Kits
• UriStar for Easy Urine Susceptibility Testing
• Phraseology – “It Doesn’t Pan Out”
• Speed Streaks – Disposable Loops

• How Microorganisms Adapt to Climate Change
• Making Endotoxin Tests from Blue Crab Blood
• StrepQuick™ for Rapid Gram-Positive ID
• CRITERION™ – New Video Released
• Phraseology – “Play it again, Sam”
• Quotes from George Orwell

• Can the poliovirus be used to fight cancer?
• Chronic Wasting Disease is spreading in deer populations
• Pet hedgehogs implemented in Salmonella outbreak
• Quotes from John Wooden
• Phraseology: “Blue Bloods”
• New antibiotic discs now available
• MycoFast – easy ID and susceptibility of Mycoplasma

• Parkinson’s and Gut Microbiome – Is there a connection?
• Oral Hygiene and the Dangers of Porphyromonas
• Quotes from Fred Rogers
• Phraseology: “Jerry Rig”
• The Size of Things Video
• Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing
• Compact Dry for Colony Counts
• Rapid Test Methods Catalog

• • Urogenital Mycoplasmas – What is the best way to ID?
  • Colistin resistant bacteria discovered in Wyoming
  • New antibiotics – Plazomicin
  • Quotes from Martha Stewart
  • Phraseology – “Bluetooth”
  • MycoFast for easy ID of Mycoplasma
  • Compact Dry for plate counts

April

• • Are age-related illnesses caused by pathogens?
  • Candida auris – Emerging pathogen of great concern
  • Serendipity – Finding Fleming’s lab in Paris
  • Omadacycline – A new antibiotic, now available
  • HardyCHROM CRE – Screen for super bugs
  • Quotes from Zig Ziglar
  • Carrot Broth – now simplified, one step

May

• • Incidence of foodborne illness in the USA
  • How to prevent foodborne illness
  • Engineered bacteria to control PKU disease
  • New antibiotics now available – Omadacycline
  • New ways to control highly resistant Acinetobacter
  • Quotes from Coco Chanel
  • Phraseology: Sideburns
  • Compact Dry for better colony counts

June

• Bioactive glass to inhibit biofilms and HAI
• Using transgenic methods to control malaria
• Phraseology: “Ken and Barbie”
• Quotes from Marcel Marceau
• New antibiotics now available
• Healthlink Transporters with many options
• Teaching microbiology – Linda Gutherz lab miniatures

July

• Using shark skin design to prevent biofilms
• Can your microbiome lead to depression?
• Phraseology: Luddites
• Quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien
• GramPRO for consistent gram stains
• The Wizard Compact Dry Plate reader
• Control microorganisms from MBL
• Transporters for specimen collection

August

• L-Carnitine – Friend of Foe?
• Legionella Outbreak at Disneyland
• Inoculating Loops – Hardy Has It!
• New Antibiotics – Disks Now Available
• The Wizard – For Fast Colony Counting
• Hardy Products Available on Amazon
• Gardnerella vaginalis Selective Agar  – Contains No Blood

September

• Building a Better Bedrail Using Copper
• What’s in the Vaccines?
• Alcohol Sanitizers Found not to be Effective with Mucus
• Quality Control Organisms from MBL
• New Antibiotics Now Available
• The Bio-Kid Science Project Kit
• Gardnerella vaginalis Plate for Bacterial Vaginosis
• Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

October

• New antibiotic class discovered from soil
• Founding Fathers used vaccines to their advantage
• Auto Brewery Syndrome – generating alcohol in the gut
• Carba 5 – easy way to detect carbapenem resistance enzymes
• MycoVue – for ready-to-use slide cultures
• HardyCHROM CRE – for detection of super bugs
• Quotes from Bono
• Malaphors – What are they?
• Phraseology – The origin of OK

November

• Can CBD oil be used against infections?
• New technology kills bacteria on hospital surfaces
• Carba 5 for the detection of superbugs
• The incidence of Salmonella infections
• Burger chains that sell antibiotic tainted beef
• Phraseology: Tip
• Quotes from Blaise Pascal
• MycoVue for fungal slide cultures

December

• Finding new antibiotics in the soil
• Super-bugs discovered in caves
• Carba 5 for detection of superbug enzymes of resistance
• PathFinder Listeria – now with green glow!
• Flu season worsens – latest stats
• Which restaurants use meat with antibiotics?
• Phraseology – “Balls to the Wall”
• UTM for viral and mycoplasmas transport
• Quotes from Marie Curie

• Autophagy and Yoshinori Ohsumi
• CryoSavers for microorganism freezer storage
• HardyCHROM ESBL to detect “Superbugs”
• Automated Gram stainers from QuickSlide
• C. Diff Banana Broth for the detection of Clostridium difficile
• Bagpipe lungs?
• Julia Child Spotlight
• Trio Bas Microbial Air Samplers
• HardyCHROM MRSA and ESBL

• Honoring H. Boyd Woodruff
• Cell Phones Battle Against SuperBugs
• HardyCHROM ESBL to detect “Superbugs”
• Automated Gram stainers from QuickSlide
• C. Diff Banana Broth for the detection of Clostridium difficile
• Julia Child
• Salmonella Fights Cancer

• How your gut bacteria can keep you healthy
• CRE – Strain found that is resistant to all known antibiotics
• Should you always finish a course of antibiotics?
• C diff Banana Broth – for simple environmental monitoring
• Antisera – from Denka Seiken
• Air Samplers – full featured from Orum
• Socrates quotes

• G vag – the real cause of recurring UTIs?
• Derm-Duet – for easy dermatophyte ID
• GramPRO 1 – automate your gram stains
• Gram Stain Advanced – why is it better?
• Colitag – for easy coliform detection
• The winners of the ASM Agar Art Contest
• Do bacteria behave differently in outer space?
• Alexander Hamilton quotes
• AnaeroGRO – for better anaerobe recovery
• C diff Banana Broth – detects spores
• Ciliate devouring a fellow ciliate video

• Botulism found in nachos
• New variation of Vancomycin, 1,000 time more potent
• QuickSlide GramPRO can process 80 slides at a time
• C diff Bana broth for environmental monitoring
• BlueMount for permanent mycology slides
• AnaeroGRO for better anaerobe recovery
• Trio Bas air sampling devices offer Bluetooth
• ComfortPRO lab coats provide many benefits
• Oscar Wilde quotes

• Rat lungworm disease
• Are you doing enough to control C. diff?
• Can E. coli be used to detect landmines?
• Quotes from Jeff Bezos
• HardyCHROM Vibrio for all three pathogenic Vibrio species
• AnaeroGRO for better anaerobe recovery
• Trio Bas air sampling devices offer Bluetooth
• ComfortPRO lab coats provide many benefits
• Carrot Broth for the detection Group B Streptococcus

• The antibiotic pipeline…what’s new?
• Environmental monitoring of clean rooms
• Gardnerella vaginalis selective agar
• HemaPRO slide stainer for blood smears
• TrioBas air samplers
• AnaeroGRO for anaerobic culturing
• Carrot Broth for Group B Strep
• Quotes from Salvador Dali

• Chikungunya – a neglected disease
• Does your brain shrink at night?
• Quotes from JK Rowlings
• Carrot Broth for GBS detection
• G vag Select Plate – for Gardnerella vaginalis detection
• AnaeroGRO – for superior recovery of anaerobes
• ComfortPRO lab coats – the ultimate in comfort!

• Gardnerella vaginalis and G. Vag Select
• Clostridium difficile and Banana Broth
• Can Mother’s Microbiome Affect Her Child’s Behavior?
• Lyme Disease not only spread by ticks.
• Trio Bas Air Samplers

• HardyVal Media Fill Challenge Testing
• Cannabis Testing
• Resistance to β-Lactam Antibiotics
• Quotes from Van Gogh
• Can Microbiome Have an Influence on Breast Cancer?

• Hepatitis A Outbreak in San Diego
• Viral or Bacterial?
• HardyVal Media Fill Challenge Testing per USP <797>
• Carrot Broth One Step for Broup B Strep.
• Trio Bas Air Samplers

• iChip and microbe discovery
• Fluoroquinolone Resistance and Screening Methods
• Cannabis Testing
• Trio Bas Microbial Air Samplers
• Carrot Broth One Step for GBS

• Video of Attacking Flu Virus
• Compact Dry™ for Colony Counts
• CarboFerm™ for Neisseria ID
• TransPRO CVM™ for Viruses
• Measles Outbreak at Disneyland
• CRITERION™ Dehydrated Culture Media
• Optical Oddities – Gallstones
• Quotes from Bono

• Winter Colds – Why we get them?
• Bourbon Virus – First Time in the US
• CryoSavers™ – Storage System
• ComfortPRO™ – Lab Coats for Comfort and Economy
• AnaeroGRO™ – Pre-reduced Plated Media
• EnviroTrans™ – Environmental Monitoring
• Rosco Kits – For Carbapenemase Resistance Detection
• Phraseology – “Eureka!”
• Quotes from Gilda Radner

• Superbugs Found in Duodenoscopes
• Semmelweis and Handwashing
• Animal Blood – Fresh and Humane
• StrepQuick™ – Fast and Inexpensive ID of GPC
• HardyDisks™ for AST
• AnaeroGRO™ for Best Anaerobe Recovery
• Lenticular Clouds
• Phraseology: “Scot Free”
• Quotes from Chief Joseph

• Using Bacteria to Restore Art
• Listeria Outbreak in Ice Cream
• HardyCHROM™ Vibrio
• MacConkey with Cipro for Prostate Biopsies
• LanaGram™ for Easy Gram Determination
• The MiRACLE® Glove by Adenna
• Phraseology: “Dead as a Doornail”
• Quotes from Aristotle

• Keeping Pets Safe in the Summer
• Answers to IQCP Questions
• Highlights from the ASM Convention in New Orleans
• CryoSavers™ for Easy Long Term Storage
• EZ-Accu Shot™ for Growth Promotion Studies
• HardyCHROM™ SS for more Efficient Stool Culturing
• Denka-Seiken Antisera
• Quotes from Walt Whitman

• Strep grouping and Rebecca Lancefield
• LoopCaddy™ – The Ultimate in Loop Organization
• MycoSeal™ – to Prevent Moisture Loss in Plates
• How safe is shrimp?
• Nasal Probiotics to Prevent Disease
• Hackers on Your Activity Tracker
• Endoscope Monitoring
• Phraseology – “Armed to the Teeth”
• Quotes from Alexander Pope

• Travel Warnings from the CDC
• The Rise of Superbugs
• Paper Microscopes
• AnaeroGRO™ for Better Recovery of Anaerobes
• Rapid MGP” for Enterococcus Speciation
• EZ Accushot™ for Growth Promotion Testing
• Quotes from Isaac Newton

• Fungal art – Wood spalting
• Recent Legionella outbreaks
• Using cell phones and toilets for epidemiology
• Phraseology – “Graham cracker”
• Quotes from Lao Tzu
• Petri Porter – rack for transport
• Compact Dry – for plate counts
• StrepPRO – Latex ID of Strep

• IQCP coming in January 2016 – ready or not
• Uncool Cucumbers – Salmonella outbreak
• Oyster beds shut down due to Vibrio
• Phraseology: Bucks
• Ready Rack for clean room tubes
• HardyCHROM™ Vibrio
• Poultry Microbiology catalog
• Rapid Test kits and Reagents
• Petri Porter rack
• HardyCHROM™ SS
• Quotes from Jonas Salk

• Your microbiome fingerprint – Could it incriminate you?
• Meet HUrBi – the chromogenic urine biplate
• Monogen by Biokit – for mononucleosis
• Group A Strep QuickVue – by Quidel
• Phraseology – “Mayday Mayday”
• How did George Washington die?
• Food Microbiology mini catalog
• Quotes from William Wilburforce

• How do bacteria communicate? Quorum sensing and biofilms
• Two new antibiotic disks to be available: Avycaz and Zerbaxa
• New biplate for Staph aureus and MRSA now available
• That Peksy Pestis: new DNA research reveals the nature of the Black Plague
• Quidel Rapid Strep Kit
• Phraseology: The origin of “Sandwich”
• ComfortPRO Lab Coats
• Revolving Petri plate racks

• Benjamin Franklin’s Resolutions
• Neisseria gonorrhoeae – the next superbug?
• SpeedStreaks – as you like it
• Two new antibiotics – Avycaz and Zerbaxa
• Intestinal microbiomes and colon cancer risk
• Anaerobic specimen transports
• Schreckenberger seminar in Palm Springs
• The Post-It – How was it invented?
• LabPRO Lab Coats
• ReadyRack for clean rooms
• Control organisms for QC
• Thoughts on Statistics

• Fungal Meningitis – What Went Wrong?
• How to Identify Candida glabrata
• New Product – Parasite Suspensions
• HardyDisks AST™ – Now with Last Disk Recognition
• Leprosy bBacterium Creates Stem Cells
• Bacteriophage – Making a Comeback?
• Ceftaroline (Teflaro) – New Disk Available
• Phraseology – Golf
• Survey: Should the post office have discontinued Saturday delivery?
• Quotes from Abraham Lincoln

• Obesity and Intestinal Microbiota
• Overuse of Antibiotics for Respiratory Infections
• TOTAL-FIX® Universal Fecal Transports
• TB MODS Kit™ for TB Detection and Susceptibility
• Tom Swifties
• Hardy Goes Green
• Sheep Blood Contamination
• Survey on Social Media
• Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

• Hand Sanitizer – AloeSafe™
• Hardy’s Gram Stain Advanced™
• Rare Food = Rare Bug
• Food Poisoning on the Rise
• Tom Swifties
• CRE Facts
• National ASM in Denver
• Survey on Political Campaign Contributions
• Quotes from Elvis Presley

• The Microbiology of Kombucha Tea
• Google Honors Julius Petri
• Ceftaroline – New Drug for MRSA
• HardyCHROM™ SS for Greater Speed in Stool Cultures
• Robots Zap C.difficile
• APIC Releases New Guide for C. difficile
• How Meat Tenderizing Introduces E. coli O157
• Survey: Should office workers have unlimited access to the internet?
• Quotes from Jackie Robinson

• Fecal Microbiome Transplantation for C. difficile Infection
• Microorganism Catalog
• HUrBi™ – for Identification of Urninary Pathogens
• HardyCHROM™ SS – Faster Way to Detect Stool Pathogens
• Bacteria Extremophiles – Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold
• Survey: Should the government fund antibiotic research?
• Quotes from Robin Williams

• Cyclospora Summer Outbreak in US
• Cyclospora – Identification Methods
• Frog Skin – A source of new antibiotics?
• Dilu-loks™ – Pre-filled Dilution Bottles
• Colitag™ – Coliform Detection in 16 hours
• Phraseology – “Pushing the envelope”
• Survey: Should marijuana be legalized?
• Quotes from Walter Cronkite

• The Black Plague – Analyzing Two 1700’s Paintings
• Mass Burials from the Plague Uncovered in London
• Tap Tight™ Contact Plates
• How to Order Online
• Denka Seiken Antisera
• Manufacturing Makes a Comeback in the U.S.
• Advanced Gram Stains
• Phraseology – “Knucle Under”
• Survey: Government Control of Sodas
• Quotes from Johnny Carson

• Prions – The Deadly Brain Wasting Proteins
• Petri-Seal™, MycoSeal™, and HardyFlasks™ for Better Safety
• Petri Plate Art by Ben-Jacob
• HardyCHROM™ Candida – Now in Powder Form
• MRSA – The Best Way to Control it in ICU
• Hardy Goes into Orbit on the ISS
• Phraseology – “Gung Ho”
• Survey: Is fracking worth the risk?
• Quotes from Edmund Burke

• Vibrios – Danger Lurking in Ocean Water and Raw Seafood
• Nature’s Chamber of Horrors
• Hardy’s Prepared Control Slides
• PYR Test Kit and PYR Reagent
• New Media for Prostate Biopsies
• The Mystery of the Ageless 14 Year Old Burger
• Survey: Are drones an acceptable way to fight the war on terrorism?
• Quotes from Dr. Seuss

• Update on Clostridium difficile
• Sting Operation Exposes Sleazy Journals
• Probiotics from Japanese Pickles Inhibit the Flu
• HardyCHROM™ MRSA
• TransPRO™ Specimen Collection and Transport
• TB MODS Kit™ for Identifying MDR TB
• Microbial Art
• Survey on “Right to Work” Laws
• Quotes from Albert Schweitzer

• Petri Plate Art
• SystemSURE Plus™ for HACCP Monitoring
• Schreckenberger Seminar
• SIRTURO™, the New TB Drug
• Black Silicon and Dragon Fly Wings Impale Bacteria
• Mystery of the Blood Falls Glacier
• EnteroPluri and Microgen for Gram Negative ID
• PYR for Rapid ID of Group A Strep and Enterococcus
• Quotes from Nelson Mandela