Perspectives

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following structures were seen in lung cyst fluid. What's the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following are the patient's peripheral blood films, with a past history of malaria and an incomplete course of anti-malarial therapy. What's the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following object was submitted for identification. No clinical history was available. What's the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following was submitted for identification. What is shown here? And what does the red arrow in the first image point to?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following structures were seen in a stool sample from a 2-year old child from a rural southern Australia with mucoid diarrhea, abdominal pain, and poor weight gain. What's the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. In this week's case, The following structure was seen in urine sediment. What's the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. In this week's case, the following eggs were seen in an ulcerated area of an intestinal biopsy. What's the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following specimen was brought in by a patient after finding it near his eye upon awakening. 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 seen on skin scrapings from a young man with a 2-month history of severe itching in the back of his left ear. What's the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week's case is from a middle-aged man. He noticed it in the toilet after a bowel movement. 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 histopathology section of an appendix from a patient with Crohn's disease. What's the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following objects were seen on a Giemsa-stained thick film from a patient with recent travel to the Western United States. Diagnosis? What additional testing would you recommend?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following object was submitted from a middle-aged man with hematuria. The specimen source is urine. What's the identification? What are the clinical implications for this patient?