Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features objects seen in a human stool specimen and measure approximately 80 micrometers in length. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features a finding in a concentrated stool specimen. The scale bars each represent 2.5 micrometers. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case: “Your boss brings in some wormy things and mentions that ‘his cat regurgitated these in the morning’.” What is your diagnosis? Risk for humans?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features objects seen in a liver cyst aspirate. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features the following objects found in stool of a toddler living in the Oceania region. There were motile and described as “rice like”. Microscopic examination of the expressed material revealed structures measuring 25-35 µm in diameter. What’s the identification?

In this “Chat with the Chair” podcast, William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and President of Mayo Clinic Laboratories (MCL), sits down with Curtis Hanson, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of MCL, to discuss value-based medicine.

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features the following, seen in a scraping of a papule from a patient with rosacea. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features objects seen in a stool specimen (direct wet prep) from a child with watery diarrhea. The objects measure approximately 40-45 µm in length. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features arthropods that are being reared to better understand their role as vectors of a human pathogen in the Belize region. What pathogen is this?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features the following objects that were seen in a wet mount of a concentrated stool specimen. The specimen was obtained from a West African baboon, but this finding may also be seen in human stool specimens. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features the following that was noted in skin scrapings from an elderly man. What’s the identification?

In this “Chat with the Chair” podcast, William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and President of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, reflects on his time as chair of the department as he reaches the midway point of his tenure.

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features the following objects that were seen on a wet mount (with iodine) of a concentrated stool specimen (400x original magnification). Size is between 15 and 20 µm in length. What’s the identification?