Can anyone recognise this cell please? It's a sphere with flagella all over it and it swirls. This is 400x magnification with phase contrast through an Omax biological microscope. The sample was taken from nasal mucus put under a slide. Mine unfortunately!
The last few weeks I've been feeling crook, light headed, headache, nausea, dizzy, runny nose. Now I've done nasal mucus slides before but not seen this critter, at least not in mucus although I vaguely remember seeing something like it in pond water.
I've been to the doctor. He just gave me stemetil and it doesn't work. I need something to point him in the right direction, to do the right lab tests at least.
Help! I find it very difficult to do astronomy, or even walk like this!
Youtube video here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-dfUaN3cQ4