It's time for our monthly case with Idzi Potters and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp:
The following was seen in a urine sediment from a backpacker returning to Belgium following a 2-month's trip in Northern Senegal. During his travels, he reports being bitten by insects, drinking and eating local foods, and swimming in fresh water lakes. He is asymptomatic, but is concerned that he may has picked up a parasite along the way.
How would you interpret this finding?
Insecta!
ReplyDeleteThat is a far as I can go.
BW from Vt
Certainly looks like a mite (scabies) but if so isn't it unusual to have "no" symptoms. If this is in urine it would imply a heavy infestation.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a mite, possibly a dust mite. It is not an itch mite. I would think of a contaminated collection rather than a clinical case.
ReplyDeleteFlorida Fan
A mite that has ended up in the sample as a contaminant, I think. We also see them here sometimes, alive.
ReplyDeleteOn second look, the organism looks more like a dust mite than the ones we find on the “boule de Lille”.
ReplyDeleteFlorida Fan
An ectoparasite like a mite. Asymptomatic individual makes you wonder if this could be a contaminant.
ReplyDeleteMore likely, it is a dust mite.
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