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This week's case was kindly donated by Monica Jarvis and Liliana Arias. The patient is a young child who lives on a family farm. The mot...

Answer to Parasite Case of the Week 582 : Dipylidium caninum proglottid and eggs. Note the beautiful egg packets, with each egg containing ...

This week's case was donated by Theodore Trejo. The following were seen in skin scrapings collected from a middle-aged man complaining o...

Answer to Parasite Case of the Week 581 : Demodex folliculorum , the human follicle mite. Demodex are fascinating arthropods that live in ...

This week's case was donated by Dr. Neil Anderson. The following objects were seen in an EDTA blood specimen obtained from a patient wit...

Answer to Parasite Case of the Week 580 : Loa loa microfilariae. As noted by several readers, the nuclei go to the tip of the tail, the micr...

Here is our monthly case from Idzi Potters and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp . The following were seen in a direct wet prepara...

Answer to Parasite Case of the Week 579 : Entamoeba histolytica This great case by Idzi nicely shows the directional motility of an E. his...

This week's case is from one of our former fellows, Dr. Rachael Liesman. The structures in question were seen in H&E-stained section...

Answer to Parasite Case of the Week 578 : Hymenolepis species. I agree with Blaine and Idzi that this is likely H. nana based on the size of...