Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites

This week's case came through my lab awhile back and was beautifully captured in the following photographs by Emily Fernholz. The specim...

Answer to Parasite Case of the Week 677 : Plasmodium malariae  with classic band and schizont forms. There is also a hint of a basket form, ...

This week's case is generously donated by Dr. Adrienne Showler. The following was passed in stool by an 'adventurous eater', who...

 Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 676 : Cestode, most likely Diphyllobothrium/Dibothriocephalus/Adenocephalus species. The CDC DPDx w...

 This week's case was donated by Dr. Paul Valenstein, and it is a beautiful example of an uncommon finding. It is an eyelid biopsy from ...

Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 675 : Coenurosis, a tapeworm infection with the larval form of coenurus-forming  Taenia species, suc...

This week's case is courtesy of Dr. Charlie Huskins, one of our pediatric ID physicians. The parents of his patient found the following ...

 Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 674 : Not a human ectoparasite or disease vector; this is one of the Coreidae or "leaf-footed...

Welcome to Case of the Week 673, for this interesting day of two's (2/22/22 or 22/2/22, depending on your preferred format). To recogniz...

 Answer to the Parasite Case of the Week 673 : Paragonimus species; two adult flukes within lung tissue. You can tell that these are flukes ...