ARTIFACTS AND CONFUSERS

• Artifacts = produced by external factors such as specimen preparation, staining, or contamination
• Confusers = produced by internal factors such as disease processes, medications, or dietary habits.
• look alike of hookworm egg : mite eggs and spore
• look alike of ascaris egg : plant cell and pollen grain
• yeast stained with lugol's solution can look like giardia lamblia cysts
• look alike of taenia egg : pollen grain