Trichomonas vaginalis, the causative agent of trichomoniasis, which is more common than you might expect!
In our micro department, when you work nights, your whole shift is basically looking at genital smears. This is not a very exciting shift so a very bored someone (not me) took a wet mount positive slide and put iodine at one end of the coverslip. She then watched the advancing iodine front as it made all the jiggling trich seize up and die what looked like a painful death on contact.
8 months ago on September 03, 2011 at 11:58pm
