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ID Thumbnail Media Data
29910
Comments A. Parasitophorous vacuole with peripheral meronts (unthickened plasma membrane) and sporonts (partial deposition of surface coat) and sporogonic stages free in lumen (binucleate sporont, uninucleate crenated sporoblasts, and dense spores). B. Spore.
Reference Canning E.U., Vavra J. 2000. Phylum Microsporida Balbiani, 1882. Pp. 39-126. In: An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa. Second Edition. Vol. 1. (Lee J. J., Leedale G.F. and Badbury P., eds.). Society of Protozoologists, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.
Acknowledgements used with permission
Life Cycle Stage life cycle and spore
Size scale bar 1.0 µm (B)
Copyright © 2000 Society of Protozoologists
Image Use ToL use only
Attached to Group Encephalitozoon cuniculi (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title encenakres1.jpg
Image Type Diagram
Image Content Specimen(s), Ultrastructure
ID 29910
29913
Comments The spore wall is not yet developed, but the spore has its final number of polar fulament coils. The anterior straight part of the polar filament with the anchoring disc is visible, as well as the single spore nucleus
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Life Cycle Stage immature spore
Body Part spore
Size 2,5 µm
Copyright © 1999
Image Use restricted
Attached to Group Encephalitozoon cuniculi (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title encesporamoje2.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s), Ultrastructure
Technical Information transmission electron microscope photograph
ID 29913
29914
Comments Fresh spores of Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Some spores have spontaneously extruded their filaments which are visible as fine threads in between the spores
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Life Cycle Stage spores
Body Part spore
Size 2,5 µm
Copyright © 1986
Image Use restricted
Attached to Group Encephalitozoon cuniculi (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title encesporygroup2.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
Technical Information unstained light microscope preparation
ID 29914
29915
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Life Cycle Stage spores in a sporophorous vacuole
Body Part spore
Size 2,5 µm
Copyright © 1998 Bretislav Koudela
Image Use ToL use only
Attached to Group Encephalitozoon cuniculi (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title encepv12.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s), Ultrastructure
Technical Information scanning electron micrograph
ID 29915
29916
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Life Cycle Stage developmental stages in a parasitophorous vacuole inside the the rabbit choroid plexus cell (tissue culture)
Copyright © 1970
Image Use restricted
Attached to Group Encephalitozoon cuniculi (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title ence1.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
Technical Information Giemsa stained preparation
ID 29916
29931
Comments Intracellular cluster of spores of the microsporidian Encephalitozoon hellem seen in a stained swab smear made from eye conjunctiva of a HIV infected person.
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Life Cycle Stage spores
Source Chromotrope-stained smear of a conjunctival swab...
Source Collection AIDS Images Library
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 2.5.
Copyright © R. Weber, Zürich
Attached to Group Encephalitozoon hellem (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title hellemoko2.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
Technical Information Chromotrope-stained smear of a conjunctival swab in an HIV-infected patient with keratoconjunctivitis
ID 29931
29930
Comments spores in the brain lesion of the Arctic fox Alopex lagopus
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
Life Cycle Stage spores
Copyright © 1970
Image Use restricted
Attached to Group Encephalitozoon cuniculi (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title ence3.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
Technical Information Goodpasture stained tissue section
ID 29930
30007
Scientific Name Binucleata daphniae infecting Daphnia magna
Comments accumulation of microsporidian spores in the hypodermis makes the infected host conspicuously opaque (left individual) when compared with the non infected host (right individual)
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Life Cycle Stage spores
Copyright © 2008
Image Use restricted
Attached to Group Cladocera (Branchiopoda): view page image collection
Binucleata (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title dafnie-nakazene.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
Technical Information photograph of infected and non-infected host, Daphnia magna (Crustacea, Phyllopoda)
ID 30007
30008
Scientific Name Binucleata daphniae
Comments spores isolated from infected hypodermal cells of infected Daphnia
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Life Cycle Stage spores
Copyright © 2008
Image Use restricted
Attached to Group Binucleata (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title binucleatasporynom.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
Technical Information Nomarski phase contrast micrograph
ID 30008
30013
Scientific Name Glugea anomala
Comments host cell of the stickleback Gasterosteus (Pisces:Teleostei) filled with microsporidian spores is hypertrophied to a macroscopic cyst (xenoma).
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Life Cycle Stage spores
Copyright © 2004 Ronny Larsson
Image Use ToL use only
Attached to Group Glugea (Microsporidia): view page image collection
Title glugea_ryba1.jpg
Image Type Photograph
Image Content Specimen(s)
ID 30013
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