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A Pediculus humanus (louse) nymph. 
Specimen was alive and in the video you can actually see
A Pediculus humanus ... louse #Pediculus #humanus ... #microbiology #parasite
Human toxocariasis forms

By Marcela Santana @Marcelaaos via Febrile [febrilepodcast.com @febrilepodcast]
#ID  #Infectious Diseases  #Infections
#Differential #Ddx
Human toxocariasis ... Diagnosis #toxocara #parasite ... #parasitic #viscerallarvamigrans
Cysticercosis - Taenia solium Life Cycle
1) Eggs or gravid proglottids in feces and passed into environment.
2)
cysticerci. 5) Humans ... eggs ingested by human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc #parasite
Demodex parasite on microscopy

Demodex; obligatory human ecto-parasite; resident in or near pilo-sebaceous units. Two species D.
Demodex parasite ... Demodex; obligatory human ... ecto-parasite; ... ParasiteGal #Demodex #parasite
Malaria - Plasmodium Life Cycle
1) Mosquito takes a blood meal (injects sporozoites)
Human Liver Stages
2) Infected liver
sporozoites) Human ... Ruptured schizont 5) Human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc #parasite
Babesiosis - Babesia Life Cycle
1) Tick takes a blood meal (sporozoites introduced into host)
2) Trophozie ←→
Transmitted from human-to-human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc #parasite
Onchocerciasis “River Blindness”: Pathogenesis and Ocular Manifestations
Vectorial Transmission
-> Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic helminth, matures in to
Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic ... Black fly bites human ... adult worms in human
Leishmaniasis Life Cycle
1) Sandfly takes a blood meal (injects promastigote stage into the skin)
Human Stages:
2) Promastigotes
into the skin) Human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc #parasite
Amebiasis - Balamuthia mandrillaris Life Cycle
1) Cysts
2) Trophozoite
3) Mitosis
4) Amebae (cysts and trophozoites) can enter humans
trophozoites) can enter humans ... infectiousdiseases #cdc #parasite
Diphyllobothriasis - Diphyllobothrium Life Cycle
1) Unembryonated eggs passed in feces
2) Eggs embryonate in water
3) Coracidia hatch
small fish 7) Human ... infectiousdiseases #cdc #parasite