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- Mosquito control training excersises taking place during the 1970s.
- Note the prior eczema vaccinatum in this 17 yr. old woman, 7 mo. after her vaccination showing residual scarring of her face.
- This micrograph reveals the terminal chlamydospores of the fungus Microsporum audouinii.
- This thin film micrograph revealed a Plasmodium vivax macrogametocyte with distinct Schufner's dots; Mag. 1125X.
- This is a top view of a cereal agar plate culture of a Microsporum persicolor fungal colony.
- This micrograph reveals developing Trichinella cysts within human muscle tissue.
- This child was infected with the smallpox virus, and on day 21 of the rash, shows the typical lesions on the sole of his foot.
- This micrograph depicts the histopathologic changes associated with rabies encephalitis prepared using an H&E stain.
- Note the resemblance between the algae Prototheca filamenta to a fungal organism due to its mycelia-like filaments.
- This girl is displaying a reaction to a smallpox vaccination on her left arm.
- This child with diphtheria presented with a characteristic swollen neck, sometimes referred to as “bull neck”.
- Hong Kong at night.
- This patient presented with these gluteal lesions that proved to be impetigo, but was first thought to be syphilis.
- Triatoma infestans or the “Kissing Bug”, “Assassin Bug”, or “Cone-Nose Bug”, is a vector for Chagas' Disease.
- This dry ice set-up was used to anesthetize small mammals caught in the field during a 1974 arbovirus study.
- This pustulovesicular rash represents a generalized herpes outbreak due to the Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) pathogen.
- This micrograph reveals an intranuclear inclusion body in a heart section from a patient with diphtheria-related myocarditis.
- This electron micrograph, viewed at a low magnification depicts the irregularities in the surface of a biofilm culture material.
- Quarantine Sign
- Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours.
- Note the histopathologic changes in a case of botryomycosis due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa using a Brown-Brenn stain.
- This micrograph reveals the histopathologic changes in phaeohyphomycosis due to Wangiella dermatitidis using PAS stain.
- This long-tailed weasel, Mustela frenata is in its winter pelage, i.e., coat, and is a carrier of various plague vectors.
- Histopathology of delayed hypersensitivity reaction to Schistosoma mansoni antigen.
- A photomicrograph of bone marrow tissue showing a normal amount of iron stores using Prussian blue staining technique.
- This photograph shows a patient being cared for by Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), about to be placed in an ambulance.
- AIDS Cases by Race/Ethnicity and Year of Report 1985-1996, United States
- This nurse is mixing oral rehydration solution (ORS). Inexpensive foil packets are stable for many months at room temperature.
- Aedes aegypti mosquito breeding site.
- A photomicrograph of skeletal muscle tissue revealing myotonic dystrophic changes as a result of Polio Type III.
- This photograph depicts a 15ml centrifuge tube containing a pellet of amniotic fluid cells.
- A patient being immunized using a jet injector.
- Accidental inoculation of Vaccinia virus on the face after a grandchild's immunization.
- This electron micrograph shows a thin section containing the Ebola virus, the causative agent for African Hemorrhagic Fever.
- African village.
- This micrograph reveals the morphology of a gravid proglottid from the cestode Taenia saginata, a tapeworm.
- This photomicrograph depicts fungal spores and adiaspores of what may be an Emmonsia sp. or Chrysosporium sp..
- This photomicrograph reveals histopathologic changes indicative of endocarditis caused by the fungus Candida albicans.
- A vial of Dryvax® dried calf lymph type smallpox vaccine, which is reconstituted with a diluent prior to vaccination.
- This is a post-smallpox vaccination site raised wheal after the patient was injected with Ped-O-Jet® injector.
- This photograph shows several papillomata on the chin and upper neck of a 30 year old woman infected with yaws.
- Here Operations Officer Anthony R. Masso uses a non-mechanical mode of transport in Niger, Africa during a smallpox outbreak.
- This photomicrograph reveals a number of macroconidia of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum.
- A BHI agar plate culture of Actinomyces sp., strain X573, at 7 days, incubated anaerobically.
- This photomicrograph reveals the histopathologic chronic inflammatory changes associated with paracoccidioidomycosis.
- Colorized Transmission Electron Micrograph of the Ebola Virus
- This patient presented with a typical vaccinial lesion of the outer canthus of the left eye.
- This patient presented with these lower extremity lesions that proved to be impetigo, but was first thought to be syphilis.
- Chinatown district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Eggs of Trichuris trichiura and Trichuris vulpis.
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