Melinda Sarte

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In this sterile needle biopsy wet-mount, does the motility pattern fit with Oomycete zoospores?

We are examining tissue from a cluster of human and canine patients with a similar pattern of systemic illness of unknown cause. All members of the cluster have evidence of motile zoospore-like...

24 October 2020 4,699 3 View

These images may show a novel/emerging human pathogen- Do you think it is consistent w/ oomycetes/myxomycetes/fungus? Anyone pursuing this already?

I am a member of a group of veterinarians who all became ill within about a years time of each other, and who all were employed in the same physical location. Some of the affected veterinarians...

03 June 2020 2,556 19 View

Can anyone help in the identification of these objects- possibly a novel form of parasitic myxamoebae/other protist/fungus?

Wet-mounts made from whole blood, osmotically lysed. The wet-mount contains numerous structures not expected in normal human blood including objects suggestive of spores/cysts/reproductive and/or...

18 April 2020 7,667 0 View

Does anyone have even a guess at what type of organism (phylum/class?) the following electron micrographs might show?

We have obtained some electron micrographs showing what appears to be developmental stages of some type of small eukaryotic organism colonizing/parasitizing the tissues of mammalian hosts....

04 November 2019 2,258 2 View

I would be grateful for any opinions about the identity or characterization of this object. (Artifact vs. organism etc..)?

Full history is in the project description, but briefly- a team of other veterinarians/colleagues and myself have stumbled across a case of multiple animals that have similar symptoms and are...

19 September 2019 1,178 4 View