Hymenolepis nana Hymenolepis nana, the dwarf tapeworm, is the smallest tapeworm to infect humans. This cestode belongs to a large family known as Hymenolepididae. The diagnostic features ...

  Chronic myelogenous leukemia (also called chronic myeloid leukemia) is a rare cancer that affects bone marrow. That’s where blood cells are produced. CML leads to the production ...

Chronic neutrophilic leukemia : The peripheral blood smear shows an absolute neutrophilia without the significant left shift, vacuolization, or toxic granulation usually associated ...

General Description Entamoeba histolytica is an ameba that feeds on cells in the human colon. It is the cause of amebic dysentery (bloody diarrhea) as well as colonic ulcerations. ...

Helicobacter pylori Helicobacter pylori previously named Campylobacter pyloridis, is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium found in the stomach. It was identified in 1982 by Barry ...

Candida albicans is a diploid fungus that grows both as yeast and filamentous cells and a causal agent of opportunistic oral and genital infections in humans. Systemic fungal infections ...

Deoxycholate Agar (DOC): To isolate and differentiate between various members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. DOC contains sodium deoxycholate and citrate which work to inhibit the ...

The hepatitis A virus is a picornavirus; it is non-enveloped and contains a single-stranded RNA packaged in a protein shell. There is only one serotype of the virus, but multiple genotypes ...

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a biochemical technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating ...

Hemoglobin C (HbC) is an abnormal hemoglobin in which substitution of a glutamic acid with a lysine at the 6th position of the β-globin chain This mutation is either heterozygous ...

The RBC in the center of the field contains several Howell-Jolly bodies, or inclusions of nuclear chromatin remnants. There is also a nucleated RBC just beneath this RBC. Abnormal ...

The term knizocyte describes a specific shape form of erythrocytes that deviates from the standard form. These cells have two concavities instead of the one seen with normal erythrocytes. ...