by Chris Conte <\/p>\n
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-The microbiology lab at Vanderbilt Hospitalis the kind of place that would make any high school biology drop-out cringe, filled with vials, test tubes and enough petri dishes to fill a small warehouse. <\/p>\n
\"I'm looking for specific structures that correlate to this organism,\" says lab technologist Tonya Snyder while looking into a microscope. <\/p>\n
For those that might find this place overwhelming though you can be glad it is filled with people like Tonya Snyder. <\/p>\n
\"We look through the cultures, see what might be growing,\" she explains. <\/p>\n
Over the last 19 years she's been looking through microscopes here, examining cultures from patients and helping doctors make diagnosis. But whatshe saw three weeks ago on a slide from a sickened patient though was the beginning of the meningitis outbreak. <\/p>\n
\"It's tragic,\" she said. <\/p>\n
It's not that Tonya had never seen this type of aspergillus fumigatus fungus before, she'd just never seen it from someone's spinal fluid. <\/p>\n
\"I don't think anybody could've seen this coming,\" Tonya added. <\/p>\n
When all of this is over withhistory will record this lab as being the place where fungal meningitis first was found. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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