The following objects were seen in a Papanicolaou-stained endocervical preparation by the screening cytologist and brought to the microbiology lab for identification. They measure approximately 8-10 micrometers in diameter. The woman is asymptomatic. (shown at 1000 times original magnification)
Identification?
7 comments:
I suspect Chlamydia trachomatis
Trichomonas vaginalis
Amebas
Entamoeba hartmanni
Possibly a free living water organism?
Lee
The morphology did not demonstrate the elements pertaining to T. vaginalis such as: flagella, blepharoplast, undulating membrane, axostyle and elongated nucleus. The nucleus is rather round and seems to have a peripheral ring and a central karyosome like those of amoebas. Based on this I tend to agree with Lee that the organism could be an amoeba.
Florida fan
I think these are maybe Iodamoeba bütschlii cysts
bl
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