Features of detecting Candida fungi in cervical smears stained by Papanicolaou: pseudomycelium, blastospores, and inflammatory epithelial changes.
Cervix. Various beautiful Candida. Papanicolaou stain.
🙏 Material kindly provided by clinical laboratory diagnostics physician, cytologist Oksana Kadantseva, Yudin City Clinical Hospital, Moscow
Microscopy of a sputum smear with Ziehl-Neelsen staining: detection of pseudomycelium and blastospores of yeast-like fungi against a background of squamous epithelial cells.
Morphological features of cervical cells with HPV: signs of severe dyskaryosis, hyperchromatic nuclei with folded contours, and scanty cytoplasm.
Morphology of yeast-like fungi in stool during coproscopy. Microscopy of preparations with Lugol's solution and methylene blue at ×400 magnification.
