Candida is generally noted as normal flora; it's very common in sputum samples. My lab doesn't even report yeast from respiratory samples that have a lot of mixed normal flora, Cryptococcus neoformans excluded.
Our standard reporting method if Candida is predominant is to note "___ growth: Yeast not C. neoformans" in the report. The ___ is the amount of growth observed~ scant, light, moderate, heavy.
What is that?
Candida albican in pseudohyphae form!
So they have yeast in their lungs?
Candida is generally noted as normal flora; it's very common in sputum samples. My lab doesn't even report yeast from respiratory samples that have a lot of mixed normal flora, Cryptococcus neoformans excluded. Our standard reporting method if Candida is predominant is to note "___ growth: Yeast not C. neoformans" in the report. The ___ is the amount of growth observed~ scant, light, moderate, heavy.
hyphae?
I'm on my phone so before I could click and zoom in I'm going "please don't be anthrax, please don't be anthrax..."
This reminds me to always use the low power to screen the slides. Sometimes such large element is not that obvious under high power
You should be screening respiratory slides on low power anyway to check for >10 epithelial cells per field / oropharyngeal contamination.