tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post8523734939459778951..comments2024-03-26T16:04:11.096-05:00Comments on Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites: Case of the Week 160ParasiteGalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093150363550239544noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-45028839801299365942011-12-18T13:09:17.275-06:002011-12-18T13:09:17.275-06:00Definately macroconidia, of what species, I am not...Definately macroconidia, of what species, I am not familiar. The visible segmention in one, is the pinning evidence.David Shapwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03327581719779582898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-83004493154439027642011-05-16T19:27:03.946-05:002011-05-16T19:27:03.946-05:00Uric acid crystals often have a curved "lemon...Uric acid crystals often have a curved "lemon" shape in urine. Here are some other images:<br /><br />http://www.ndt-educational.org/fogazzislidepart3.asp<br /><br />http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199403173301106<br /><br />http://www.netterimages.com/image/19896.htm<br /><br />Note that, while some are angular in these images, many are very rounded.ParasiteGalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093150363550239544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-1296570646148913822011-05-16T06:57:51.369-05:002011-05-16T06:57:51.369-05:00Too curved for crystals found in urine . Some kind...Too curved for crystals found in urine . Some kind of unfertilized parasite egg??Lady Bugnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-73552306830770884422011-05-11T19:35:07.403-05:002011-05-11T19:35:07.403-05:00hmmm...im not so sure abouyt uric acid crystals - ...hmmm...im not so sure abouyt uric acid crystals - they seem a little too rounded - not square edged enough -happy to be shown wrong though. I am however on board with the artifact shide of things though.Lukus Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13128179042544690230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-26021404091718021492011-05-11T01:55:09.701-05:002011-05-11T01:55:09.701-05:00not an organism because of the varying degrees of ...not an organism because of the varying degrees of sizes. It is uric acid crystals.Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15234083755740134685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-61009327865823169252011-05-10T12:10:24.458-05:002011-05-10T12:10:24.458-05:00Not Schistosoma and no fungus I can recognize. Ar...Not Schistosoma and no fungus I can recognize. Artifact? Instilled medication?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-77463920533087648512011-05-10T12:08:49.711-05:002011-05-10T12:08:49.711-05:00Pollen? (though I thought pollen was a little mor...Pollen? (though I thought pollen was a little more rounded than this....)Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-63017219129952487582011-05-10T11:24:03.742-05:002011-05-10T11:24:03.742-05:00Artifact. It might be a fungus, but I don't re...Artifact. It might be a fungus, but I don't recognize it.neuro_nursenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-4796676820339693912011-05-10T11:14:04.395-05:002011-05-10T11:14:04.395-05:00They look like dematiaceous macroconidia with mayb...They look like dematiaceous macroconidia with maybe a few microconidia thrown into the mix.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11031597322569889363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-75371770716391647412011-05-10T08:51:48.231-05:002011-05-10T08:51:48.231-05:00Some weirdo artifact. I thought it might be a uri...Some weirdo artifact. I thought it might be a uric acid crystal, but it's too rounded; and too small to be S. hematobium.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629132641307534690.post-21281465498966817022011-05-10T06:45:34.431-05:002011-05-10T06:45:34.431-05:00Im a little stumped to be honest. The blue cells a...Im a little stumped to be honest. The blue cells are normal epithelium, the black dots are the eosin stained nuclei, but the lemon shapeed objects are causing me problems! They look a lot like they should be helminth eggs of some kind, but not any that I can think of look like this. The objects have bi-polar spines and seem to be held within a sheath. They crack in the middle sometimes which makes me think they have some sort of shell. The shape reminds me of Trichuris eggs but they don't have the bi-polar plugs or apparently any larvae inside (though is that a worm in the object 2nd picture down 1st on the right? ). Obviously spined objects in the urine would make you immediately think 'Schistosoma' but these objects are double spined which non of the 3 human species (haematobium, mansoni, japonicum) are to my knowledge...plus, they dont have the internal structure of digenean eggs. They also look nothing like the giant kidney worm's eggs (Dioctophyme renale)...<br /><br />so I don't know. Are the red stained circular objects any clue?Lukus Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13128179042544690230noreply@blogger.com