Monday, March 22, 2010

Case of the Week 110

The following larval tracks were seen on an agar plate that had been inoculated with the sputum of an immunocompromised patient from Kentucky. What parasite should you be concerned about? (Tracks are viewed using 4x objective)


5 comments:

Alasdair Hill said...

Disseminated Strongyloides?

Anonymous said...

Strongyloides stercoralis

Anonymous said...

The larva of Strongyloides stercoralis wiggling through bacterial colonies! Very neat.
BW in Vt

Salbrent said...

Strongyloides sp larvae

Anonymous said...

It's an aerial photo of the Amazon river flowing into the ocean!