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Cat Observation Paper

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• In the morning I got to observe Microsporum canis undern a microscope. One of the vet techs named Patty set up a wet mount, she first placed a few drops of lactophenol cotton blue onto her slide and then grabbed cellophane tape, with sticky side down she pressed the tape onto the center of a colony. She then placed the tape onto her slide and adjusted the microscope to high dry and examined the slide. I was able to see the macroconidia but they weren’t very well developed. An owners cat had been suffering with ring worm for a while and the owners been having trouble getting rid of it and wanted to see if there was still growth. The DTM had finished incubating and from what we saw under the microscope it was confirmed that there was growth. …show more content…

Dyana restrained the cat by covering it with a towel while Adriana guided me. The medial saphenous was easy to see; I wiped the area with alcohol, went in with my needle bevel up making sure I went as distal as I can go into the vein, and slowly pulled back the plunger. Dyana brought out microhematocrit tubes and clay so I can fill them for the PCV and TP test. Quickly after taking blood from the cat I filled up two microhematocrit tubes 2/3 of the way directly from the syringe, cleaned off the excess blood, and sealed it up with clay. For the chemistry panel they send out the blood in the red top tube, so after we got our sample for the PCV and TP test we placed the rest of the blood in the clotting tubes and we put them to centrifuge. Dyana showed me the microhematocrit centrifuge and we spun down our tubes, timing it for five minutes. When they were done I noted the plasma color which was a clear straw color and measured it and the PCV came out to 39% which was normal for a cat. I then grabbed the refractometer to measure the TP; I break my microhematocrit above the buffy coat so I can place a drop of plasma onto my refractometer. I look through my refractometer and measured it at 6.2 g/dl, which was also within the normal range for a …show more content…

Dyana got a swab of the left and right ear and asked me to set up an ear cytology. Dyana said to use one slide to put both ear swabs on. So I rolled out the right ear sample on one side of the slide and rolled out the left ear swab sample on the other side of the slide. I heat fixed it and stained it with Diff Quick stain. I put it under the microscope and go under oil. I was able to identify yeast, cocci, and rods. Dyana had a look under the microscope and confirmed my findings; we had saved the slide so that Dr. Robins can have a look at it

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