Figure A: Yeast in an iodine-

stained concentrated wet mount

of stool. Yeast in wet mounts
may be confused for Giardia.

Figure A: Yeast in an acid-fast

stained stool specimen. These may
be confused for the oocysts
of Cryptosporidium sp. Images
courtesy of the Arizona State Public
Health Laboratory.
Figure B: Yeast in an acid-fast
stained stool specimen. These
may be confused for the oocysts
of Cryptosporidium sp. Images
courtesy of the Arizona State
Public Health Laboratory.
Pollen Grain
Figure C: Pollen grain in a
concentrated wet mount
of stool.
Possible pollen grain or algal or fungal
spore in a concentrated wet mount of
stool. Grains like this one resemble the
operculated eggs of Clonorchis,
Metagonimus and related. These grains
are usually smaller than the trematode
eggs, however.

Figure D: Plant hair in a concentrated Figure A: Pollen grain in a concentrated

wet mount of stool. Plant hairs can
be common in stool and may be
confused for the larvae of hookworm
or Strongyloides stercoralis. However,
they are often broken at one end,
have a refractile center and lack the
strictures seem in helminth larvae
(esophagus, genital primordium, etc).
wet mount of stool. This grain looks very
similar to the fertile egg of Ascaris
lumbricoides, although the spine-like
structures on the outer layer should
separate the two.
Figure D: Pollen grain in a trichrome-
stained stool specimen. In this focal
plane, the grain looks like the striated
egg of Taenia sp. However, notice the
lack of refractile hooks.

Figure E: Possible pollen grain or

algal or fungal spore, similar to
Plant hair the one in Figure B, but in a
trichrome-stained stool
Figure C: Plant hair in a specimen. Laboratories.
concentrated wet mount of stool.
Plant hairs can be common in stool
and may be confused for the larvae
of hookworm or Strongyloides
stercoralis. However, they are often
broken at one end, have a refractile
center and lack the strictures seem
in helminth larvae (esophagus,
genital primordium, etc).
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