Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites

This week's case is an 'oldy but goody' - a case donated to me by Dr. Eric Rosenbaum years ago that I just re-discovered. The hi...

Answer: Amblyomma sp. nymph Everyone did a great job describing the diagnostic features of this tick. There were a few that were trying to...

Happy Holidays to all of my readers and fellow parasitologists! Here is a little holiday cheer by way of a photo and poem from Blaine: ...

I have a bit of a puzzle for you this week. The following are transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of a liquid-based stock culture ...

Answer: Acanthamoeba sp. cysts and trophozoite. Wow, I really enjoyed reading the comments on this case! If you haven't already, I enc...

This week's case features a whole slide image (WSI) of an H&E-stained section from a bladder resection. You can access the WSI HERE ...

Answer to Case 522 :  Schistosoma haematobium eggs and adults. Kudos to those of you who saw both the eggs and the adults! I realize that ...

This month's case from Idzi Potters and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp , features a stool specimen from a traveler returnin...

Answer: Dicrocoelium dendricitum eggs This is relatively rare find in human stool specimens. The eggs are small (35-45 µm long by 20-30 µm...

This week's case is a small "worm" submitted for identification following removal during screening colonoscopy. It was tan-whi...