Bug identifier Flashcards

Strep pneumo

Giardia lamblia

Sporothrix schenckii

Toxoplasma gondii

Actinomyces

Nocardia

candida albicans

plasmodium vivax or ovale

Naegleria fowleri

Entamoeba histolytica

Gardnerella vaginalis

malassezia furfur

syphilis

cryptococcus neoformans

Trichomonas vaginalis

ehrlichiosis - rickettsial disease - morulae (berry-like inclusions) present in the cytoplasm of monocyte cytoplasm

Trypanosoma brucei
EBV - atypical T cells “downey cells”
do not confuse w/ smudge cells in CLL (see image)

bacillus anthracsis

blastomycosis - broad based buds

neisseria - present in neutrophils
acid fast stain of lung isolate

mycobacterium

histoplasmsois - hides in macrophages

mucormycosis and Rhizopus

Leishmania donovani

CMV - owl eye inclusions

paracoccidioidomycosis

pseudomonas - blue/green pigment

Staph aureus

corynebacterium diphtheriae

Pneumocystis jirovecii
acid fast stain from the GI

Cryptosporidium

Rabies - Negri body

coccidioidomycosis - spherules filled w/ endospores “coccidio crowds”

Aspergillus fumigatus

Trypanosoma cruzi

Babesia
Tzanck smear

Herpes
Tzanck heavens I do not have herpes!