Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case, generously donated by Dr. Tara Ness, with filming credit to the Lab Hlathi Team in eSwatini. See a video of this parasite here. The following arthropod was found in the urine specimen of a man with HIV and a history of dysuria. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case, from Idzi Potters and the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, features 1-cm long structure was extracted from a Belgian patient returning from Ghana. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features two different types of objects seen in a trichrome-stained stool specimen that was screened by a digital slide image and machine learning platform. How did it do? Did it find real parasites?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features the following worm noted in the toilet of a patient with an extensive international travel history. See a video of this parasite here. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features an interesting finding in a concentrated stool specimen. The individual structures are approximately 25 micrometers in length, while the longer tubular structure is 330 micrometers long. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. This week’s case features multiple small (3-6 µm), round structures identified after a stool specimen was submitted for parasite examination. The patient is a 15-year-old boy returning from swimming camp, who presents with several-day history of profuse watery diarrhea. What’s the identification?

Every week, Mayo Clinic microbiologist Bobbi Pritt, M.D., posts a new Parasite Wonders case. The following structures were seen on a non-nutrient agar culture that had been inoculated with corneal scrapings. 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 found in a middle-aged male patient’s stool. Individually, they measured approximately 1 cm 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 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?