The size can be estimated by comparing with the red cells in the backround.
The picture looks very much like filaria as seen in blood smears.
A. Ottolenghi
>il128 at my-dejanews.com wrote:
>>>> Doh! Thanks, Phil. I had better break out that old Mycology book and brush up
>> on my Perfect and imperfect forms of fungi. Hell, these days do they even
>> call them fungi anymore. :^) Paul
>>>> In article <359AE507.1A98 at earthlink.net>,
>>jorge2 at earthlink.net wrote:
>> >
>> > il128 at my-dejanews.com wrote:
>> > >
>> > > The morphology without any size determination is not much help. How big is
>> > > this thing? It looks overly large to be a fungus. I would guess and it is a
>> > > guess that what you are seeing is a protozoan. I think I should add that
>> most
>> > > fungi that invade the blood are yeast forms not imperfect forms of fungi.
>> > > Many of these yeasts revert to imperfect forms after thay have invaded the
>> > > body. If the individual has an fungal infection and there are fragments of
>> > > the imperfect form in the blood the infection has progressed to the point of
>> > > being untreatable. Paul
>> > >
>> > > In article <6n8kot$e1c at bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>,
>> > > "Dr. John Allocca" <allocca at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm having a great deal of difficulty identifying what looks like a fungus
>> > > > in human blood. You can see the micrographs at:
>> > > >
>> > > > http://www.allocca.com/bood1.htm>> > > >
>> > > > Please reply by e-mail.
>> > > >
>> > > > Thank you
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>> > > >
>> > >
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>> > Paul seems right on - the entity apears to be too large and not
>> > consitent in morphology with the typical fungal pathogens. I think he
>> > is confused regading "perfect" forms and is citing the yeast-mold
>> > conversion of dimorphic fungi (neither of these is necessarily
>> > "perfect").
>> > Why do you think it's a fungus? Any staining or culture results? You
>> > might try some of the Calcofluor-based stains to look for Beta-linkages.
>> >
>> > Phil Geis
>> >
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>Paul:
>I know - I'm such an old PP (pre-PCR) mycologist that the old taxonomy
>is still the way I think of 'em.
