Nit cement diagram (IMAGE)

University of Reading

Nit cement diagram

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Nit of human louse showing the cement covering the egg shell and hair shaft, including a human cell (nucleus, arrow). Fluorescence microphotograph in the UV light, specimen prepared with a fluorescence dye that binds to DNA (DAPI). Nuclei of cells and bacteria, Riesia -primary symbiotic bacterium of lice, show signal (arrows).

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