Case of the Week 594

By Bobbi Pritt, M.D. • June 10, 2020

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This week's case was donated by Florida Fan - a lovely classic protozoan parasite seen in a concentrated wet prep of stool, and trichrome-stained specimen. Each line on the scale bar in the first 2 images represents 2.5 micrometers. What's the identification?

Read Dr. Pritt's blog, Parasite Wonders, and submit your answers, comments, and questions. Also, visit her website ParasiteWonders.com, which hosts an archive of classic images from cases Dr. Pritt posted going back to 2007 (in an easy-to-search "A through Z" format) and also offers a flashcard feature.

Answer to Case 594:

Entamoeba coli cysts and trophozoite.

Bobbi Pritt, M.D.

Bobbi Pritt, MD, MSc, is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and the Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. She is also the Chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology. Her research interests are in clinical parasitology, vector-borne diseases and the pathology of infectious diseases.