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Agarplate redbloodcells

Original - Red blood cells on an agar plate are used to diagnose infection. The plate on the left shows a positive staphyloccus infection. The plate on the right shows a positive streptococcus infection and with the halo effect shows specifically a beta-hemolytic group A. These infections can occur in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Public domain image from Cancer.gov.

Edit 1 by Fir0002 - downsample/sharpen

Reason

A well crafted image on an encyclopedic topic. Quality images on medical topics tend to be rare at Wikipedia.

Articles this image appears in

agar plate, growth medium

Creator

Image taken 10/1985 by Bill Branson. AV-8510-3737

• Support as nominator Durova^Charge! 05:41, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support We have precious few quality medical photographs and this is a particularly well-lit, descriptive example. --mikaul^talk 08:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
• Weak support High enc, good looking. Not perfectly sharp in full size, but good enough considering its large size. --Janke | Talk 09:46, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support, very nice image showing the topic clearly. --Reinoutr (talk) 11:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-02 18:46Z
• Weak support. As Janke says, it might need a sharpening on the right hand side. That said, a slightly downsampled version would still convey all the essential information. Would give full support to a sharpened/downsampled version. Samsara (talk • contribs) 22:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
• Weak oppose not super technical quality. Also I think the caption is confusing (not nominator's fault - came from the .gov site) - the colonies on the plate cannot be RBCs (they are non-mitotic) and I would guess they are staph colonies plated onto some sort of RBC media. Not sure what's going on scientifically here. de Bivort 02:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
• Support both informative and subtly mysterious. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 22:28, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose I honestly cannot see a "halo" on the right plate. I don't like the blurred condensation on the left plate. The image in the agar plate info box shows how plates can be more visually interesting, and I simply don't think that this a high quality, informative image. However, because this looks like it is going to pass, it needs a more explanatory caption. I think adding as a second sentence "Both plates show positive infections." would be helpful. - Enuja (talk) 17:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
  • comment - i think it might be the soft glow. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 19:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
• support - lovely image. Jaakobou^{Chalk Talk} 19:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Support Either. Good photo --Fir0002 03:09, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Agarplate redbloodcells edit.jpg MER-C 02:19, 8 January 2008 (UTC)