Observation of Fungi, Bacteria, and Parasites in Clinical Skin Samples Using Scanning Electron Microscopy

@inproceedings{Ran2016ObservationOF,
  title={Observation of Fungi, Bacteria, and Parasites in Clinical Skin Samples Using Scanning Electron Microscopy},
  author={Yuping Ran and Kaiwen Zhuang and Wenying Hu and Jinghong Huang and Xiaowei Feng and Shuang Chen and Jiaoqing Tang and Xiaoxi Xu and Daoxian Kang and Lu Yao and Ruifeng Zhang and Ran Xin and Huiying Wan and Lama Jebina and David Yalin and Chaoliang Zhang},
  year={2016},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:53472683}
}
This chapter highlights the description of the clinical manifestation and its pathogen and the host tissue damage observed under the Scanning Electron Microscope, which helps the clinician to understand the pathogen’s superstructure, the change of host subcell structure, and the laboratory workers to establish a two-way learning exchange database with vivid images.
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