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Awesome images! I'm glad you were finally able to catch a glimpse of them.

Sweet image! Great technique!

Crater Eddie wrote:Very good image, and nice to read the background.
CE

Thank you Crater Eddie!

DUDE! Legit!

These cystine uroliths were found in the urine sediment of a male dog presenting for chronic stranguria (straining to urinate) and pollakiuria (abnormally frequent urination). This image is a focus-stacked micrograph consisting of 7 exposures taken at 1,000x magnification. Merck Manual quote about c...

Are they fungal ? there can't be so many pinworm eggs in my stool I do not think they are pinworm eggs. If you are not convinced, then I recommend measuring them. Size is frequently used to help identify parasite eggs. According to the CDC, "The eggs of Enterobius vermicularis measure 50-60 microme...

Also, I have several images of human pinworms (Enterobius vermicularis) and human pinworm eggs. Take a look:

http://www.veterinaryparasitology.com/enterobius.html

Crater Eddie wrote:I just now found this. You have done a lot of very good work there! CE

Hobbyst46 wrote:Thanks for the link. Will send the link to friends that are pet owners.

Thank you for the compliments! I have been putting a lot of love and time into this project, and I hope it can be put to good use.

Based on these two fields, there are no parasites or parasite products that I can see. If you had pinworms, then you would have an itchy anus and would be able to identify eggs attached to your anus; less commonly are eggs in the stool. Here are some pics I took of equine pinworms. They are quite in...

Video of freshly passed canine feces with an active Dipylidium caninum (flea tapeworm) proglottid (10x magnification). These feces were passed by an apparently healthy, 13-year-old, neutered male, Australian Shepherd dog. This motile proglottid contains thousands of eggs that are infective only to f...

Logo%20(Final%20With%20BG)%20copy.jpg Here's the veterinary parasitology website that I've been working on in my free time. My goal was to create a free resource that could help with identification of parasites of veterinary and human significance. The site contains over 2,000 images taken with ste...

WOOOOHHHH!!!

Here are some pics I took of the blood-sucking parasite, Ornithonyssus sp. I have yet to specify the species, but common victims include rodents and fowl. Ornithonyssus sp. mite, 100x magnification, 100um scale bar ; Dorsal view, stack of 14 exposures ( Left ); Ventral view, stack of 14 exposures ( ...

I love it! Thank you for sharing!

Incredible images! Thank you for sharing!

These slides were saved for me by a Texas A&M veterinary oncologist who knew I would appreciate them more than the trash. Thank you for rescuing such precious artifacts! Links to high resolution images: Fine needle aspirate and cytology of histiocytic sarcoma : - 3a Histiocytic Lymphosarcoma (200x; ...

On April 5th, I had both masses excised ( see images below ). On April 16th, I consulted with a renowned veterinary oncologist/ cytologist at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine. She agreed with my preliminary diagnoses of Lipoma and Perianal Adenoma. Yesterday, I submitted both masses to TVMDL...

Absolutely amazing work!

I agree with 75RR. They appear to be conidium of some sort.

It would be very interesting to see some crops from the centre and corner of a full resolution single image of something boring, like a stage micrometer. Your stacked image is superb, but perhaps not ideal for [dare I say 'objectively' ?] assessing the performance. Yo Michael, I got those images yo...

IMHO, it would be better to set the condenser iris last, (reverse steps F and G) since the correct condenser aperture (whatever value you decide for it, I e.g. prefer towards the 60% not 90%) depends on the brightness of the illumination, which in turn depends on the centration of the image of the ...

wstenberg wrote:Nice photo. What was the host organism?

Hey wstenberg, Thanks for the comment. I did not collect the sample and I do not know the host. I was only fortunate enough to have viewed the slide.

Absolutely incredible image. I'm blown away! Thank you for sharing!

mrsonchus wrote:Hi, I've had a look on the web and suspect the fungus may be Miyagia pseudosphaeria which seems to be a known enemy of Sonchus - even to the extent that it's being studied as a possible bio-control for Sonchus 'weeds'....

Wow! Awesome find!

I know all microscopes and digital microscope softwares are different, but here are several things I fiddle with when assessing my color options for brightfieqld images (I know NOTHING about fluorescence! or DIC!). You probably know all of this, but I always use the same systematic process so I'll l...

The segmented structures appear to be some form of conidia. Because of their source and morphology (concurrent longitudinal and transverse septa), I'd guess that they are dictyospore conidia of an environmental fungus. Their morphology does not closely resemble any of the yeast forms commonly found ...

Those Lily Pollen images are out of this world! Also, idk if this is just me or my computer or what, but the colors are so pretty that I want more exposure (for example, on the Lily Anther LS pollen with 2 nuclei; 20x Plan 0.45, 3 image stack, phase contrast lighting). I have neither imaged botanica...

Thank you, LW. No insult taken at all. I have near zero intelligence in Veterinary parasitology or cytology anyway :mrgreen: The microscopist in veterinary medicine will inevitably find himself/ herself studying pathology, cytology, oncology, dermatology, and/or parasitology. I have no doubt that t...

Thanks for this post -- It is very interesting and I found your photos to be very good and informative. This is an area I know very little about; I couldn't spot abnormal cells if you pushed my nose into them! So, seeing this post and your images really helps me get an understanding of what is goin...

Thank you! Yes, I did let a vet see it and it was the vet who said that it is most likely lipoma. She only recommended monitoring. We did not do cytology. I understand this is a casual forum and not a formal place for medical advice. A lot of veterinarians are comfortable making this diagnosis with...