This week's case is from my lab and features an organism as seen on our AI interface from a digitally-scanned trichrome-stained slide. Our technical specialist, Heather Morris, has used the software to measure each of the structures. What is your diagnosis?
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Giardia cysts and some beautiful trophs!
Giardia's troph are so cute! And cyst are pretty too! In my country we don't use stains for parasites in stool. It's so nice to see how we look for the same things, but in different ways.
-HLCM fan
Giardia duodenalis cysts and trophozoites. Hihi… they always seem to look at me and smile… nice (but not to have maybe).
Classic Giardia!
Look like little Giardia ghosts floating around..
Giardia lamblia is found pretty much everywhere around the world, yet in some cases the infection can range from chronic to very severe. We had a very experienced American WHO consultant who helped us purify protein fraction1 of Yersinia pestis in the early seventies. Together we had many meals at open roadside shops and never had any issues. After the Vietnam war, he was sent to Africa where he contracted severe giardiasis and had to be repatriated. Yes, many raw stool samples with Giardia may be apparently normal and a few are literally a bloody mucoid mess.
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