What are these structures?
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Case of the Week 456
This week's case was generously donated by Idzi Potters from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. The following were seen in a liquid culture of a skin biopsy using Tobie Sang Lapin (TSL) medium (Phase contrast, x1000 magnification). The specimen was first ground in a dounce tissue grinder. Diagnosis?
What are these structures?
Check out their classic motility here:
What are these structures?
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The header on the video kind of gives it away.
Thanks for the heads up Sheldon. I just fixed it!
Leishmania sp. promastigote, elongated cell with an anterior flagella.
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Leishmania sp
Leishmania
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