Plant Root Hair in Tap Water: A Potential Cause for Diagnostic Confusion

Plant root hairs are commonly found artifacts in parasitology specimens and may be confused with helminthes by an untrained eye. We report a case of brain tuberculoma where the tissue sample was contaminated with root hair derived from tap water; the presence of this root hair, which mimicked a larv...

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Autores principales: Shakoor, Sadia, Wasay, Mohammad, Zafar, Afia, Beg, Mohammad Asim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21239870
http://dx.doi.org/10.3343/kjlm.2011.31.1.44
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description Plant root hairs are commonly found artifacts in parasitology specimens and may be confused with helminthes by an untrained eye. We report a case of brain tuberculoma where the tissue sample was contaminated with root hair derived from tap water; the presence of this root hair, which mimicked a larva, led to diagnostic confusion. Therefore, tap water should be considered a source of root hair and vegetable matter.
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spelling pubmed-31110352011-06-14 Plant Root Hair in Tap Water: A Potential Cause for Diagnostic Confusion Shakoor, Sadia Wasay, Mohammad Zafar, Afia Beg, Mohammad Asim Korean J Lab Med Case Report Plant root hairs are commonly found artifacts in parasitology specimens and may be confused with helminthes by an untrained eye. We report a case of brain tuberculoma where the tissue sample was contaminated with root hair derived from tap water; the presence of this root hair, which mimicked a larva, led to diagnostic confusion. Therefore, tap water should be considered a source of root hair and vegetable matter. The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine 2011-01 2011-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3111035/ /pubmed/21239870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3343/kjlm.2011.31.1.44 Text en Copyright © 2011 The Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Plant Root Hair in Tap Water: A Potential Cause for Diagnostic Confusion
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title_short Plant Root Hair in Tap Water: A Potential Cause for Diagnostic Confusion
title_sort plant root hair in tap water: a potential cause for diagnostic confusion
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21239870
http://dx.doi.org/10.3343/kjlm.2011.31.1.44
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