Case Study Assignment: Microscopy and Types of Cells

Answer the questions below and submit your answers in a separate document. You must write all your answers in your own words.

1. Examine the following image. You are looking at a slide that contains a sample of blood from a patient.

a. Identify the structure that is not part of the normal human blood smear.

b. What type of microbe is this?

2. Examine the following image. You are looking at an acid-fast stain from a patient's sputum.

a. Identify the most likely genus of the microbe

b. Why was a gram stain not used in this case?

3. Examine the following image. This image was produced with an electron microscope.

a. What type of microbe is this?

b. What can you tell about the microbe from this image?

4. You have two patients with the symptoms of meningitis. You examine the CSF from both patients, conduct a gram stain and come up with the following images.

a. What types of cells are causing the meningitis in the first image. How can you tell?

b. What types of cells are causing the meningitis in the second image. How can you tell?

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