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Entamoeba coli
CYST
- Chromatoidal bars: broomstick w
splintered ends
- Thick walled
- No. of nuclei: 8

∴ If the number of nuclei is >4, most likely it is

E.coli cyst.

Entamoeba coli

TROPOZOITE

Entamoeba histolytica

CYST (infective stage)

Mature cyst
- Quadrinucleated (tetranucleated)
- Thin cystic wall

Chromatoid bar – sausage shaped or cigar shaped

with rounded end
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Iodamoeba butschlii

CYST
- Mononucleated cyst (1 nucleus)
- Large I2 stained glycogen vacuole

Entamoeba histolytica

TROPHOZOITE (“feeding” stage)

- Mononucleated nucleus with centrally
located karyosome
- Finger panting pseudopod
• release one at a time in explosive
manner
• progressive/ unidirectional
movement
- Inclusion: ingested RBC
(“hematophagous”)
- Clean-looking cytoplasm

Blastocystic hominis
(vacuolar form)

- 2 to 4 nuclei pushed towards the periphery

- Large vacuole
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Fat Globule

- Cyst-like structure
- Increased in cases of steatorrhea
(increases fats in stool)
- Fecal artifact (pseudoparasite)

Muscle Fiber

- Rectangular
- Non-striated form
- “Creatorrhea” – presence of too much
muscle fibers

Vegetable Cell

- Vegetable remnant
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Vegetable Fiber

- Food remnant – mistaken as larva of

nematode

Vegetable Fiber

- Food remnant

Balantidium coli

TROPHOZOITE (motile stage)

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Balantidium coli

CYST
(non-motile/ infectious stage)

- Cilia within a cystic wall

- Micronucleus
- macronucleus

Giardia lamblia

TROPHOZOITE

Giardia lamblia

CYST (infective stage)

- tetranucleated
- axoneme
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Chilomastix mesnili

CYST
- small protuberance (nipple): American
lemon shaped
- mononucleated