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June,
2010
Case 277
A 29-year-old female went to her health care provider with complaints of
fever and headache, two weeks after returning home from trips to Uganda
and Sudan. She admitted that she only took malaria prophylaxis
whenever she did not feel well. A blood smear was ordered by her
physician. Figures A-F show what
was observed on a Giemsa-stained thin blood smear. What is your
diagnosis? Based on what criteria?
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F |
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here for the answer to Case 277.
Case 278
DPDx is moving! Along with the all of the laboratories within the
Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria at the CDC! We want to
take this opportunity to let you know that although actual specimen
receiving and testing will be temporarily interrupted for about a week
or two, DPDx will continue to provide telediagnosis assistance via the
internet.
This leads us to the second case for this month. While packing for
the move, we discovered an interesting pathology slide labeled with only
an accession number. Figure A shows the slide and
Figure B shows the specimen using a dissecting
microscope. The slide was observed under a compound microscope for
higher magnification; Figures C and E
show areas captured at 40x, and Figures D and F
at 200x. What is your diagnosis? Based on what criteria?
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D |
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here for the answer to Case 278.
Images
presented in the monthly case studies are from specimens submitted for diagnosis or
archiving. On rare occasions, clinical histories given may be partly
fictitious.
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