darkfield and unidentified body

[Dilworth]

What are you looking at?  It's hard to tell unless you give us a little
more information.  Is this human in origin or from an environmental or
animal source? If human, what kind of fluid or source?  Urine, feces,
other body fluid??? If a patient how old, what sex?  I would assume 7
rbc's equals 28-35 microns or so.  Is it round?  Elongated?  Tapered?

QNS information.....

Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP)
Microbiology


anyd wrote:
> 
> I was hoping someone could help me out. I am finding a large, bright
> but transparent body in darkfield. It has a radius of about 7 rbcs in
> legnth. The odd thing is that each one I find has a very bright red
> body inside of it that is about the size of a rbc. Given some time
> many neutrophils will line up along its edges. 2) A similair red
> object was found inside a very long parasite looking body in urine.
> What are these? Any help would be greatly appreciated.