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Dolli Lane, 96th Medical Group laboratory technician, reviews a sample

Dolli Lane, 96th Medical Group laboratory technician, reviews a sample through the microscope Nov.19 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Lane spotted a rare spirally-twisted bacteria when reviewing a sick patient’s malaria smear. The sample provided by the 96th MDG lab was the first-ever human-blood sample of a spirochete bacteria, known to cause tick-borne relapsing fever to be cultured at the Centers for Disease Control.

PHOTO BY: U.S. Air Force photo/Ilka Cole
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