Straight gas swimming in your peehole. This is the urine showing a crazy UTI (urinary tract infection). The circular petri dish grew an organism called Pseumonas aeruginosa, which is known for causing UTU'S, lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis and most notably "Swimmer's Ear." We, as Medical Laboratory Scientists, are trained to identify this organism and many others that cause human infections. Pretty sick, huh? For my students: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an oxidase-positive, non-la