A Trich on Friday
No, that's not a typo...I'm talking about the little critter:
Near the lower left-hand corner of the image there is a single pinkish oval that doesn't have dark grape-y looking things in the center, see? That's a trichomonad. All the other things around it are white blood cells (specifically neutrophils) trying to get rid of it.
My techs and I were excited to see the second case this week so I thought I'd share the joy. And the knowledge: http://www.cdc.gov/std/Trichomonas/STDFact-Trichomoniasis.htm
Near the lower left-hand corner of the image there is a single pinkish oval that doesn't have dark grape-y looking things in the center, see? That's a trichomonad. All the other things around it are white blood cells (specifically neutrophils) trying to get rid of it.
My techs and I were excited to see the second case this week so I thought I'd share the joy. And the knowledge: http://www.cdc.gov/std/Trichomonas/STDFact-Trichomoniasis.htm
posted by SamD | 2:08 PM
1 Comments:
Love the Trich! I found poultry trichmonads - tons of 'em - once in a cat being fed raw chicken. It helped me convince the owner that the raw diet thing wasn't the greatest idea, as did the fact that the cat's chronic colitis cleared up with a little metronidazole/fenbendazole and a change in diet.
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