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:

Causes Chromomycosis

Iodamoeba butschlii:

Non-pathogenic

Ancylostoma duodenale:

Found in stool

Fasciola hepatica

Fasciola hepatica

Tricheinella 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

Growth on 5% BAP

Beta Hemo

From 19 y.o throat swab w/ acute pharyngitis

GPB, club shaped, rudimentary branching

Arcanobacterium hemolyticum:

H&E stained section of gastric biopsy

Patient with suspected peptic ulcer disease (PUD)

Helicobacter pylori:

Endolimax nana troph:

Giardia lamblia:

Travelers diarrhea

Bacillus anthracis:

Malignant pustule

Direct contact w/ raw animal hides from Central Asia

Cyclospora cayatenensis:

Dominates tropics and subtropics

Only 7um X 10um

Gliocladium species

Clonorchis sinensis:

Consume through infected fish

Enterobius vermacularis:

From tape mount of perianal skin from child C/O nocturnal an@l pruritis

Talaromyces (Penicillium) marneffei

Pinworm/Enterobius vermacularis

Trichoderma:

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Schistosoma haemotobium:

Plasmodium falciparum:

Known to have tiny rings on the RBC mems

2 Middlebrook-7H-11 plates incubated 35C

Left was incubated in dark

Right was incubated in light for 24hrs

Mycobacterium kansasii:

Recovered from shower cutains, bathtubs, toothbrushes

From pt peritoneal fluid recieving peritoneal dialysis

Rhodotorula mucilaginosa:

Sporothrix schenckii

Clostridium tetani

Smooth, white

Non-hemo

From urine culture

GPCs

Catalase - POS

Coagulase - NEG

Staphylococcus saprophyticus