Monday, December 3, 2012

Case of the Week 235

This week's case is a bit challenging.

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:

Anonymous said...

I suspect Chlamydia trachomatis

Anonymous said...

Trichomonas vaginalis

Conrado Zanardi said...

Amebas

Matthew Rollosson said...

Entamoeba hartmanni

Anonymous said...

Possibly a free living water organism?

Lee

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

I think these are maybe Iodamoeba bütschlii cysts
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