Thursday, April 30, 2009

PCR results are in


I have sent the specimen being documented in this blog, for mtDNA analysis, and the preliminary results are in. It is unknown at this time. They ran queries for fungal sequences and it came up negative. Many, who are familiar with microbiology have suggested it may be fungal in origin. This would be natural assumption, judging by morphology, as seen in micrograph above.
It is apicomplexan, but classification may be a task ahead. The DNA is still available for further sequencing, which may have to be done.
Is it novel? Well, it certainly has not been well documented. Since people like myself are infected with this or variations of this, as a human disease I would have expected a faster hit.

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