MediaLab Micro Pics

Ancylostoma duodenale:

“Old World Hookworm”

Pair of teeth

Infections indigenous in Western Africa and many Euro countries

Hymenolepsis dimunata:

Lacks polar filaments

Tinea solium tapeworm:

Brain cysts turn into protoscolices (hydatid sand) and eventually mature to Adult T. solium tapeworm

Fusobacterium nucleatum:

Grows ANABAP

GNB with tapered ends

Indole POS
H2S POS

Fonsecaea pedrosi:

Cause chromomycosis

Iodamoeba butschlii:

Non-pathogenic

Ancylostoma duodenale:

Found in stool

Fasciola hepatica:

Fasciola hepatica:

Trichinella spiralis encysted larva

Trichinella spiralis encyst larva

Schistosoma mansoni

Balantidium coli:

Ingest water/food contamination with infective cysts

Cyst and troph covered in cilia

Hymenolepsis spp

H.nana is smaller and has filaments

H. dimunata is larger and no filaments

Loa loa:

Microfilaria

Sheath

Continuous row of nuclei extends to tip, end are irregularly spaced

Beauveria:

Insect pathogen

Rare in humans

Motile

Polar tufts of flagella

Produce yellow pigment

Burkholderia cepacia

Wuchereria bancrofti:

225 um in length

Phillipines

Paragonimus westermani:

Histoplasma capsulatum:

3 days to grow

Taenia species egg

Plasmodium falciparum

Hymenolepsis dimunata

Candida dubliensis:

Thrush associated with AIDS

Exserohilum species

Phialophora verrucosa