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- This was part of a series used to familiarize public health inspectors with sanitation conditions in migrant worker camps.
- Note the histopathologic changes in a case of phaeohyphomycosis due to E. pisciphila in this catfish tissue specimen.
- This diagram depicts the various stages in the life cycle of the intestinal roundworm nematode Ascaris lumbricoides.
- This photomicrograph reveals a mature Plasmodium ovale schizont with containing twelve merozoites.
- This illustration depicts the ventral features of the male louse, Polyplax spinulosa.
- This thin film micrograph shows a mature P. malariae schizont containing 8 merozoites, each with invisible cytoplasm.
- This micrograph shows human liver tissue infected with the Ebola virus, the cause of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
- Entamoeba coli trophozoite with central karyosome.
- This photomicrograph depicts the presence of Prototheca wickerhamii using a lactophenol cotton blue mount technique.
- Newly built hospital at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.
- This SEM depicts an E. coli (ATCC 11775) biofilm grown on PC (polycarbonate) coupons using a CDC biofilm reactor.
- Washington Monument and cherry blossoms.
- Known as a vector for the West Nile virus, this Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito has landed on a human finger.
- Drawing identifying the abdominal segments of a Culex mosquito larva.
- Seated on this 1968 panel discussing the eradication of smallpox were some of Nigeria’s Smallpox Eradication Program officials.
- Here domestic mosquitoes are found breeding in this street-side drainage ditch.
- This image depicts a 35ml syringe containing amniotic fluid.
- This was part of a series used to familiarize public health inspectors with sanitation conditions in migrant worker camps.
- This is an anterior view of the face of a Myotis lucifugus, or Little Brown Bat, found in Trenton, N.J.
- Using a direct FA stain, this slide demonstrates the histopathology of sporotrichosis due to Sporothrix schenckii.
- Bubonic Plague smear demonstrating the presence of Yersinia pestis bacteria.
- Histopathology of Taenia saginata in appendix.
- This was a specimen of fibroadipose tissue containing “black grain” mycetoma due to the fungus Madurella grisea.
- Photomicrograph of Neisseria gonorrhoeae colonies growing on GC base media with IsoVitalex after 24 hours.
- These are secondary syphilitic lesions, known as syphilids on a patient's palms.
- This gelatin agar medium was used in the identification of the bacteria Vibrio cholerae, the causal agent of cholera.
- This image shows a lab technician measuring the zone of inhibition during an antibiotic sensitivity test.
- Laboratory Operations, Savannah, GA.
- These were participants in the Smallpox Eradication Program in Ibadan, South Western Nigeria, 1968.
- Salmonella bacteria in tetrathionate enrichment broth stained using direct FA staining technique.
- The left bottle Histoplasma capsulatum culture growth is shown at 8wks and the right bottle is shown at 3wks.
- This patient presented with a primary vulvar syphilitic chancre due to Treponema pallidum bacteria.
- This photomicrograph shows the asci and ascospores of the fungus Arthroderma grubyi, formerly Nannizzia grubyia.
- PHS Hospital, Indian Reservation
- A photomicrograph of Clostridium botulinum type A viewed using a Gram stain technique.
- This thin film micrograph reveals two P. vivax rings, each bearing different morphological characteristics; Mag. 1125X.
- This child with measles is displaying the characteristic red blotchy pattern on his buttocks during 3rd day of the rash.
- Plasmodium vivax trophozoite in blood smear.
- This patient presented with staphylococcal orbital cellulitis. Note the periorbital swelling and erythema.
- This truck-mounted fogger is attempting to minimize vector-borne diseases by applying insecticide to irrigation drainage pools.
- An illustration identifying lateral pouches on the head of a Deinocerites mosquito larva.
- An electron micrograph of spores from the Ames strain of Bacillus anthracis bacteria.
- This child is displaying a deformity of her right lower extremity due to polio caused by the poliovirus, an enterovirus member.
- This 1970 photograph depicts a mycology lab training kit containing stock cultures, audio tapes, 2 X 2 slides, and manuals.
- This micrograph depicts the histopathologic changes associated with cryptococcosis of an adrenal gland.
- This photograph depicts a few laboratory products involved in storing and shipping anaerobic bacterial specimens.
- Histopathology of tuberculosis, endometrium. Ziehl-Neelsen stain.
- Puerto Ricans weighing copper sulfate for control of bilharzia (schistosomiasis)
- Smear of Pneumocystis carinii. Giemsa stain.
- This micrograph reveals the histopathologic changes found in Tamiami virus encephalitis; Mag. 300X.
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