Day 8 🧪 Welcome back to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips! 🍄🔬 Today we’re locking in the dimorphic fungi that LOVE to show up on exams:Coccidioides, Histoplasma, Blastomyces, and Paracoccidioides. From boxcar-shaped arthroconidia and spherules, to spiky tuberculate macroconidia, to lollipop conidia, to the mariner’s wheel in tissue; if you know the growth pattern, the spores, and the geography, these questions get a LOT easier. Save this for later, send it to your study partner, and follow

Day 9 🧪 Welcome to 30 Days of ASCP: Ratchet Study Tips🤪🤏🏽🤏🏽🤏🏽 Today we’re finally clearing up reactive lymphocytes vs monocytes: the cells everybody loves to mix up on diff counts. The secret is chromatin first: reactive lymphs usually have fine chromatin and may show a visible nucleolus(especially immunoblasts), but not all reactive lymphs will have one, so don’t rely on that alone. They often have light to pale blue cytoplasm that hugs surrounding RBCs. Monocytes do not have nucleoli,