Question

Describe a clinical or research scenario that requires the use of a microscope. What microscope is the best choice for the scenario and why? What would be your second choice? For example: E.coli, why we need to use microscope to see the E.coli.

Answer 1

Microscope plays an indispensable role in viewing the specimes which are very small in size and cannot be identified by our naked eye.

Clinical or Research scenario use of microscope

• It helps to study the structure of proteins
• Microscope determine the shape and size of cells and intracellular structues
• helps in examination of concentration of ions.
• helps in diagnosis of blood, urine etc

There are five types of Microscopes( Stereo Microscope, Compound Microscope, Inverted, Metallurgical, Polarizing)

but for clinical Compound microscope and Inverted microscopes are prefered , they have magnification power of 40x-400x where we can view majority of microorganisms.

E coli is a rob shaped bacteria and its size is about 1 to 2 micrometers long which cannot be seen through our naked eye, so for better Viewing and studying microscope is used