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- This 20yr. old woman from Sylet, East Pakistan, is displaying a scar from a previous tuberculosis adenitis infection.
- This photograph shows a child undergoing smallpox vaccination in Bangladesh using a Jet-Injector® delivery mechanism.
- Blood smear showing young immature schizont of Plasmodium malariae.
- Charcoal-yeast extract agar plate culture of Legionella pneumophila.
- Blood agar plate culture of Corynebacterium diptheriae (belfanti).
- Alcaligenes denitrificans. Flagella stain.
- This SEM depicts an E. coli (ATCC 11775) biofilm grown on PC (polycarbonate) coupons using a CDC biofilm reactor.
- This photograph shows CDC medical entomologist Dr. Harry D. Pratt describing a DDT poster used in a Malaria Control Program.
- This micrograph depicts the gram-positive bacterium Bifidobacterium eriksonii grown in blood agar for 48 hours.
- A photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis bacteria taken from heart blood, and using Carbol Fuchsin stain.
- This is a side view of a typical light microscope with a substage condenser in place to focus the illumination beam.
- EIS officer with African children.
- Egg of Fasciolopsis buski.
- Note the coronaviruses contained within cytoplasmic membrane-bound vacuoles, and cisternae of the rough endoplasmic reticulum.
- Entamoeba histolytica cyst, unstained. Chromatoid body visible.
- Pre-stain technique – Step 4 of 5. See PHIL ID#’s: 3431, 3572, 3432, 3565, 3428 for the complete set.
- This resident is indicating the first evidence of chlordane contamination in a local Chattanooga, Tenn. water supply.
- These health practitioners are reading CDC's publication entitled MMWR, or Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
- Note the histopathologic changes associated with phaeohyphomycosis due to P. parasitica using methenamine silver stain.
- This is a photomicrograph of young conidiophores of a Tritirachium sp. fungus.
- Proglottid of Mesocestoides sp. Unstained.
- Photomicrograph of spherical (cocci) Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus bacteria magnified 320X.
- These were Arizona sp., E. coli, Salmonella sp. and Shigella sp. lysine iron agar stab cultures.
- Hookworm rhabditiform larva.
- This illustration shows some of the identifying morphologic characteristics located on the abdomen of a typical female flea.
- This patient presented with a primary syphilitic chancre in the right inguinal region.
- This micrograph reveals a meningeal infection due to Bacillus anthracis bacteria using an H&E stain.
- Note the gonococcal lesion on the skin of the left arm due to the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
- This is a 1976 photograph showing a cracked mud bed, which was once covered by a water-filled dike.
- A Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito on a human finger.
- Wound botulism involvement of compound fracture of right arm.
- Heterophyes egg.
- A Public Health Quarantine Station in San Francisco, 1961.
- This was a plate culture of Exserohilum rostratum, a fungus, which causes Phaeohyphomycosis.
- This female Cambodian patient presented with a distended abdomen due to a hepatoma resulting from chronic hepatitis B infection.
- Administration of a vaccine during the 1976 New Jersey immunization project, for Influenza A (swine flu).
- This photograph of the left foot of a young smallpox patient shows the typical lesions located on the foot’s plantar surface.
- This photomicrograph depicts the eggs of the nematode, or round worm Enterobius vermicularis mounted on cellulose tape.
- Ebola virus antigen in skin
- The Minitek® System consists of disposable well plates that are used to hold disks impregnated with biochemical substrates.
- This photomicrograph reveals the histopathology in an acute case of gonococcal urethritis using Gram-stain technique.
- Egg of Diphyllobothrium latum.
- This is a photograph of a patient’s abdomen displaying red, elevated lesions due to psoriatic skin condition.
- A technician is placing a Western blot strip in a test tray. Antigens if present will bind to this sheet and later be detected.
- This thin film blood smear micrograph depicts a P. vivax ring with 2 chromatin dots; Magnified 1125X.
- Photomicrograph of liver tissue revealing the presence of Leptospira bacteria.
- Histopathology of cytomegalovirus infection of lung.
- This was a make-shift Hospital for smallpox patients during the Kosovo, Yugoslavia epidemic in 1972.
- This is a New Jersey light trap used for trapping mosquitoes when conducting field studies.
- This micrograph depicts the gram-positive bacterium Propionibacterium acnes grown in blood agar for 48 hours.
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