3. A watery stool was submitted to the laboratory for O & P…

3. A watery stool was submitted to the laboratory for O & P examination. The technologist notes numerous trophozoites that have non-progressive, blunt pseudopods.  The trophozoites contain one nuclei with a large, irregular shaped, eccentric karyosome, coarse and unevenly distributed peripheral chromatin, and bacteria within cytoplasmic vacuoles. The technologist should: