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 4,664 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 2,523 19 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 2,187 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 1,150 4 View