Shown is an iron-hematoxylin stain of a concentrated fecal preparation. What are the organisms shown and what is the significance of finding them?
Monday, January 12, 2009
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A parasitologist's view of the world
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I'll stick my neck on the line and go for Iodamoeba buetschlii cysyt. The cyst is uninucleate with a large karyosome. There is also a large glycogen mass. The significance is that the cyst is at its infective stage. -- Chris H
I think it's entameba histolytica and the significance it that this pt needs tx so that he doesn't develop brain abscesses, etc.
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