I have attached the protozoan photo, which was isolated from marine fish. It may be microsporidian but I am not entirely sure.
Hi, can you give information on the size of these forms ? And in what part of the fish did you find them ?
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Its 100x magnification in light microscope and which infected in the muscle of the fish that pic also i attache here
They look like ciliates. I don't think the round one is Blastocystis. Can you put a scale bar?
It is not moving sir now i attach the spor forming place in the fish
It is fish ciliates.....may be chilodenella or other fish cilaits....
I agree with mosaab omar. I attended a seminar on fish parasite before and he said may be chilodenella. Can you tell which species of fish you used?
I know it has been some time but did you find out what protist it was? As others mentioned, scale bar would be good, also knowing if they move or not and regarding the ciliate comments, it might be difficult to capture on camera but if you look down the microscope, can you see a 'wavy' pattern suggesting there are beating cilia?
It is necessary to know in which kind of fish tissue and the size of these structure. Are you take a measure? They may be a microsporidian, but the image is not very clear and it is not possible to observe the vacuole and polar tubule. In my opinion they do not appear to be a ciliates.
I agree with Dr. Beraldo, I don't see cilia either, and it's necesary to see vacuole and polar tube too in order to identify it, what kind of fish?
I agree with dr.Beraldo and dr.Besne.First of all it is necessary to get information about size of subject and its localization in fish body.on my opinion it doesn't look as microsporidia .It is more similiar to eggs of parasites or zooplankton...
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