[exDemMom]

Incubation time is 8 to 16 WEEKS.

And I thought it was tedious growing Leptospira, which had to be cultured for days!

Yeast in selective media could take days to weeks to grow, too.

I've never tried culturing anything that took several weeks to grow. It would be very disheartening if a culture failed.

[Myrddin]

I love the field of bacteriology, but this kind of waiting on an indeterminate result pushed me into the world of computer science. The bugs are different, but more controllable. The waits for proteins to crystallize to allow structural analysis by x-ray crystallography spawned software modeling of protein folding. Computational biology is the synthesis of both disciplines.