Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites

This week's case is by Idzi Potters and the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp . As always, he has an interesting challenge for us! ...

 Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 671 : Infertile Ascaris lumbricoides eggs, many decorticated. Decorticated eggs can pose a diagnost...

This week's case was generously donated by Dr. Steven O'Connor. He noted multiple worms in an resected appendix, and captured the fo...

Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 670 : Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) adults within the lumen of the appendix. This is a classic e...

Here's another fun parasite histopathology case for you: a full-thickness section of bladder wall from an Egyptian man with invasive bla...

 Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 669 : Schistosoma haematobium adults and eggs - a classic case! As noted by Idzi, "Looking at ...

This week's case is a lovely cross-section of an arthropod embedded within the epidermis. The patient is a middle-aged woman with a lesi...

 Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 668 : Tunga penetrans (likely one adult female flea) embedded in skin. Hopefully you all had a chan...

Happy New Year! Here's a great case to start off 2022. A large structure (~25 cm-long) submitted to the Clinical Parasitology lab (found...

 Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 667 :  Ascaris lumbricoides .  This adult nematode is easy to identify when found in human stool, o...