Monday, December 2, 2013

Case of the Week 284

The following are touch and smear-preparations of brain tissue from a HIV-positive male with necrotic cortical lesions.

Giemsa, 400x magnification




Giemsa, 1000x magnification

















Identification?

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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 12:08 PM

    Toxoplasmosis.
    -Jacque

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  2. AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 12:53 PM

    Toxoplasma gondii
    bw from vt

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  3. UnknownDecember 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM

    Lovely tachyzoites of T gondii

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  4. AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 2:40 PM

    Toxoplasma


    Lee

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  5. AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 3:25 PM

    Tachyzoites of toxoplasma gondii.

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  6. AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 6:07 PM

    Tachyzoites of T. gondii.

    Florida Fan

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  7. AnonymousDecember 4, 2013 at 6:16 PM

    Toxoplasma bondi tachyzoites

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  8. AnonymousDecember 7, 2013 at 7:21 PM

    In SF this was an every Friday night occurance 10-15 years ago and haven't seen since. Thus someone wasn't taking their anti-virals or prophylaxis or I'm living in a protected world of private practice.

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  9. AnonymousDecember 9, 2013 at 3:11 PM

    I agee. T. gondii

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