Microscopic detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in urogenital smears: features of methylene blue and Gram staining, and diplococci phagocytosis.
🔬 Gonorrhea, archival slides. Staining: methylene blue, Gram. Different patients. 🙏Photos kindly provided by biologist Natalia Morkhova
Microscopic view of a male urethral smear in gonorrhea: pronounced leukocytosis and phagocytosis of kidney-shaped diplococci (Neisseria gonorrhoeae) by neutrophils.
Microscopic image of a Gram-stained urethral smear showing intracellular and extracellular Gram-negative diplococci (gonococci) and neutrophils.
Morphological features of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in urethral smear microscopy: leukocyte clusters, intracellular and extracellular kidney-bean-shaped diplococci.
