Monday, March 17, 2014

Case of the Week 296

The following case was generously donated by Florida Fan.  This object was seen while reading an iodine-stained fecal sediment at 400x (approximately 175 microns in diameter).  Identification?



















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6 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 17, 2014 at 12:55 PM

    Not like any parasite I am familiar with, maybe plant material?

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  2. AnonymousMarch 18, 2014 at 7:32 AM

    Looks like a pretty flower..LOL! I would go with plant material as well!

    Lee

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  3. AnonymousMarch 19, 2014 at 2:07 AM

    I am used to see it in stool sometimes, but do not know, from which plant it comes. Hope that I will finally find out here.

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  4. Fred PMarch 19, 2014 at 2:28 PM

    Pollen of some sort is my guess.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 20, 2014 at 11:19 AM

    Acetabularia?

    --bks

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  6. UnknownMarch 21, 2014 at 3:17 AM

    Definitely it's not a parasite, rather it looks like some plant trichome which somehow contaminated food. Compare it for example with Russian Silverberry trichomes (http://goo.gl/3yvkZ6).

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