A watery stool was submitted to the laboratory for O & P exa…
A watery stool was submitted to the laboratory for O & P examination. The technologist notes numerous trophozoites that have nonprogressive, blunt pseudopods. The cysts are supernucleate, while the trophozoites contain one nuclei with a large, irregular shaped, eccentric karysome, coarse and unevenly distributed peripheral chromatin, and bacteria within cytoplasmic vacuoles. The technologist should: