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- This thick film photomicrograph depicts a mature Plasmodium malariae schizont using Giemsa stain; Magnified 1125X.
- Posterior chain of Mesocestoides sp.
- Plasmodium malariae band form trophozoite in blood smear.
- This was part of a series used to familiarize public health inspectors with sanitation conditions in migrant worker camps.
- CDC staff members are collecting data at Doctor's Hospital, Tucker, Georgia, 1977.
- Entamoeba histolytica trophozoite.
- Foreign public health trainees.
- This thin film micrograph reveals Plasmodium malariae parasites using a Giemsa stain; Mag. 1125X.
- This is probably the last "variolation" dosage from India during the early 1970s.
- This thick film photomicrograph depicts P. falciparum parasites in the form of numerous rings; Giemsa stain; Mag. 1124X.
- A photomicrograph of a blood smear showing erythrocytes containing developing P. vivax parasites, magnified 1000X.
- Child's right hand and wrist displaying the characteristic spotted rash of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- Mortars and pestles used in plague studies, 1965.
- Blood agar plate culture of Corynebacterium diptheriae (gravis), smooth.
- Line graph showing trends in cigarette smoking among persons aged 18 years and above, by sex.
- This image demonstrates how a smallpox vaccinee washes his hands after handling his vaccination site bandage.
- This micrograph depicts the histopathologic changes associated with lobomycosis of the skin.
- View of Manhattan and World Trade Center towers from Liberty Island.
- This patient presented with a Grade I goiter due to an iodine deficiency.
- Rate of suicide among adults aged 65 years and older, by race/ethnicity.
- Poster promoting treatment of gonorrhea.
- This CDC supervisor was instructing personnel on the inspection of socioeconomic-based variances in sanitary conditions.
- A photomicrograph of a positive indirect immunofluorescence test checking for the presence of Giardia lamblia.
- Schistosomulum in ear skin of a naive mouse.
- A photograph of a child afflicted with polio during the Rhode Island polio epidemic.
- This is a Sabouraud’s agar plate culture upon which is growing the fungus Fusarium verticillioides.
- Walk-in autoclave at the CDC Clifton Road facility.
- Boys wading in stream in Puerto Rico despite sign on bank: "Danger - There is Bilharzia"
- Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) cover artwork for Volume 3, Number 2, April-June 1997 issue.
- This patient presented with erosion to her cervix due to what turned out to be low grade cervical carcinoma.
- This micrograph depicts the histopathologic changes associated with rabies encephalitis prepared using an H&E stain.
- This was a plate culture of Exserohilum rostratum, a fungus, which causes Phaeohyphomycosis.
- Children in northern Ghana.
- This is a photograph of the CDC, "Serology of Syphilis", class members of 1955.
- This is a photomicrograph of the fungus Candida albicans.
- Entamoeba histolytica cyst.
- A 1950s photograph of the Public Health Service Facilities in Cincinnati, OH.
- River Avon, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand.
- Death Rates from Leading Causes of Death in Persons Aged 25-44 Years, USA, 1982-1994 (graph)
- Bacillus anthracis M'Faydean capsule stain.
- This image shows a BHI (Brain Heart Infusion) agar culture growing Leptotrichia buccalis bacteria on day 3.
- Immunization for children
- This 2 yr. old child presented with a case of ocular vaccinia due to autoinoculation.
- These are conidiophores with conidia of Penicillium marneffei that were isolated from a splenic abscess.
- Legionnaires' Disease newspaper articles during the outbreak of the 1970s.
- After receiving a smallpox vaccination this child presented with a case of pan-corporeal eczema vaccinatum lesions.
- This is a piece of clothing the seams of which contained lice eggs from the body louse Pediculus humanus var. corporis.
- Vibrio cholerae. Leifson flagella stain (digitally colorized).
- This is an aluminum Sherman Trap®, which was used to capture animals live during a 1974 arboviral study.
- This is a top view of a Sabouraud’s dextrose agar plate culture growing Microsporum persicolor.
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