As I mentioned yesterday, this week I am highlighting several images taken with equipment found in the University of Idaho’s new Optical Imaging Center.
This image shows the parasite Toxoplasma gondii growing in human fibroblast cells – the cells most common in human connective tissue. The parasite causes a disease known as toxoplasmosis that, while typically self limiting and fairly harmless, can cause the death of a human fetus if its mother is exposed.
The imaged was taken on a Nikon 80i microscope with a color digital camera by Ingrid Fruth, a recent Ph.D. graduate from Gustavo Arrizabalaga‘s laboratory. Arrizabalaga is a professor in Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (MMBB) and WWAMI, a consortium of western states with an agreement to send medical students to the University of Washington.
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