RE: THE WORLD OF MICROBIOLOGY (OC)👁🧠 / MI VISION SOBRE LA MICROBIOLOGIA👨🎓👩🔬
You are viewing a single comment's thread:
I have not seen an amoeba in an actual patient yet (thankfully). I have seen malarial parasites in blood. Other than that, maybe trichomonas in wet preps.
The scope is mostly used for gram stains anyways. Then, it's followed by acid fast bacillus and fungi. But, all identifications are done off of the cultures.
0
0
0.000
I see that you speak with experience in the field! Bioanalyst? Haha xD I will be limited because I do not have access to chemical material, imagine something as basic as Lugol, to dye starch is not available in Portugal xD, shit! I never saw malaria under the microscope! 😱, I saw many parasites, I remember the last one was Toxocara canis in the heart of a dog!
Yeah, we may have PCR to detect stuff now, but most of the diagnosis are still performed by stain when it comes to malaria.
Parasites are uncommon in the States. I hardly see patients with them.
The downside to seeing something awesome under the scope is that the patient is probably not having a good time.