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Here are very large, immature myeloblasts with many nucleoli. A distincitve feature of these blasts is
large, immature myeloblasts ... Path #BloodSmear #Blood ... Microscopy #Auer #Rods #AuerRods
A 37-year-old woman initially presented with pancytopenia and found to have leukopenia (2.1 × 103/μL) with
She was diagnosed ... her peripheral blood ... Path #BloodSmear #Blood ... Microscopy #Auer #Rods #AuerRods
Leishmaniasis Life Cycle
1) Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into the skin)
Human Stages:
2) Promastigotes
Sandfly takes a blood ... Sandfly takes a blood ... Leishmaniasis #LifeCycle #diagnosis ... pathophysiology #infectiousdiseases
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
CNS infection Diagnosis ... available • Blood ... Monocytogenes #diagnosis ... #management #infectiousdiseases
Listeriosis Summary - Listeria Monocytogenes
Pathogen: Listeria Monocytogenes - Gram-positive rod, Aerobic, facultative anaerobe, motile, beta-hemolytic, Non-spore-forming
Risk
CNS infection Diagnosis ... available • Blood ... Monocytogenes #diagnosis ... #management #infectiousdiseases
Bandemia Overview

Normal: < 1%
Clinically significant: > 10%

Band neutrophils are slightly less mature than segmented neutrophils and
of peripheral blood ... on the left Myeloblast ... Differential Diagnosis ... cultures, including blood ... #differential #diagnosis
Causes of blood culture negative infective endocarditis

Bartonella spp, Brucella spp, Coxiella burnetii, Chlamydia spp, Tropheryma whipplei,
Causes of blood ... #differential #diagnosis ... #Endocarditis #InfectiousDiseases
The following graph was prepared based on the latest information on Testing for the Diagnosis of
Testing for the Diagnosis ... Viruses in the blood ... HIV virus in the blood ... appearing in the blood ... #Diagnosis #InfectiousDiseases
Babesiosis - Babesia Life Cycle
1) Tick takes a blood meal (sporozoites introduced into host)
2) Trophozie ←→
) Tick takes a blood ... ) Tick takes a blood ... ) Tick takes a blood ... Babesia #LifeCycle #diagnosis ... pathophysiology #infectiousdiseases
Malaria - Plasmodium Life Cycle
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal (injects sporozoites)
Human Liver Stages
2) Infected liver
Mosquito takes a blood ... schizont 5) Human Blood ... Mosquito takes a blood ... Plasmodium #lifecycle #diagnosis ... pathophysiology #infectiousdiseases