Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites

This week's fun photograph was donated by Dr. Graham Hickling. The accompanying questions are: 1. What is the (top) arthropod shown...

Answer: Questing  Ixodes sp. nymph climbing on another arthropod (a weevil) This tick is exhibiting a behavior called "questing"...

This timely case is from Florida Fan which he entitled "A Beast with Many Faces" due to this parasite's varying appearance wit...

Answer: Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts Thanks again to Florida Fan for providing these colorful images. Idzi Potters mentioned that C. ca...

This week's case was generously donated by Idzi Potters from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. The following were seen in a...

Answer: Leishmania sp. promastigotes. The promastigote form is found in the Phlebotomine sandfly host as well as in Leishmania culture, wh...

This week's impressive case was donated by Dr. Peter Gilligan and Dr. John Hunt. The patient is a middle-aged man from Nigeria who prese...

Answer: Coenurosis, an infection with the larval form of either Taenia serialis or T. multiceps. While the the former has a predilection for...

This week's case was generously donated by Florida Fan. The patient is an otherwise well woman in her 30's who passed the following ...

Answer: Tapeworm,  Diphyllobothrium species This case shows the classic morphology of an adult tapeworm, consisting of a flat ribbon-like ...