A clinical case: a patient with facial erythema underwent a skin scrape for Demodex. Microscopy revealed a mite. Try to identify the parasite.
An anonymous question from a subscriber. Please help identify the parasite.
Clinical picture: A 52-year-old woman developed a red spot on her face – diagnosed as rosacea, the doctor advised an additional scrape for Demodex.
Microscopy of the preparation revealed this “miracle”.
It doesn’t look like Demodex… Scabies mite? Or is it something else?
A clinical parasitology case: diagnose and identify parasite forms observed during microscopic examination of a patient's skin scrape.
A diagnostic challenge in stool microscopy for an HIV-positive patient: identify a parasitic object 25–30 µm in size using three microscopy methods.
A clinical parasitology case: microscopy of skin scrapes from an elderly man with an itchy rash. Identify the objects found in the microphotographs.
