Clinical cases

Diagnosing Gonorrhea by Microscopic Smear Examination

Microscopic signs of gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) in urogenital smears: clusters of diplococci, leukocyte reaction, and PCR confirmation.

🔬Microscopy challenge for flora smears. ✅The 3 photos show microscopic images of urogenital preparations from 3 different patients, but with the same infection. ❓Which pathogen was detected by PCR analysis? 👉The material for the challenge was kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician Oksana Vladislavovna Kadantseva.