Thursday, April 23, 2009

Documenting curious microbe. Pathogen?




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I have isolated a very interesting microbe, and have photographed it through high performance camera at special settings under dark field at 600+-x.
The microbe is motile, and tends to roll. It is made of smaller subunits, which I never would have seen without the computer images. The subunits are green, with red on polar end. I have observed the units break off and migrate away from mother unit. The unit, which I call "sponge integer" has been cultivated from sample placed in 30% bleach with purified sterile water and incubated at 37+ degrees C. The sample was blood obtained from microscopic slide wet mount.
The donor, has multiple acquired symptomologies without definitive diagnosis. Suspicion of bartonella has been noted by specialist, but I do not see any indications of this.

If you study the image, you can see the surrounding subunits, these are found throughout sample. There are also other ameoboid type microbes in the solution, and scattered biofilms.
I speculate the red terminals are acidic molecular residues, and the green is neutral PH. This type of configuration is noted in microbes I have observed with intracellular parasites. I am not jumping to conclusions here, but feel these microbes are worthy of recording for future reference.

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