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What is this? - Contamination (Jul/27/2006 )

Hello.

I have a culture of ARPE-19 cells in a 24 and 12 wells plate and after two days I see something in the wells, It is stuck to the well flour. Can it be a kind of contamination?what can i do?I hope that you see it in the photo.

Thank you.

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-Die-

The photo is too blurry for me to see anything. Is the drawing you have what you are seeing in your wells?

-jamie419-

QUOTE (jamie419 @ Jul 27 2006, 05:48 PM)
The photo is too blurry for me to see anything. Is the drawing you have what you are seeing in your wells?


Yes. The drawing shows that I see from below.

-Die-

What does the mass look like microscopically? Does it have hyphae? It might be a fungus.

-enowyn-

Not too sure, could b fungi.

-scolix-