Introduction to Diagnostic Medical Parasitology
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Key Diagnostic Features
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Exercises
Key Diagnostik Features
Amoebae and flagellates
Diagnostic features
- size
- form
- surface (cyst wall, membrane of trophozoite)
- surface modifications (flagella, fibrils)
- nucleus (size, number, structure and location of chromatin and karyosome)
- cytoplasma (granulation, vacuoles, inclusions (leukocytes, erythrocytes, bacteria, yeast)
- stage of development (immature cyst, mature cyst, oocyst, number of sporocysts/sporozoites)
