Slides of Arthropods

Eggs

Culex egg raft Aedes egg

Anopheles egg

Lice eggs
Cimex egg
Musca eggs

Larvae

Musca
Aedes larva
Culex Anopheles
larva
larva larva

Musca posterior Calliphorinae Sarcophaginae

spiracles posterior spiracles posterior spiracles

Pupae Musca
pupa
Mosquito pupa

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 Adult Mosquitoes

Female Male
Anopheles Anopheles

Male Culex
Female Culex

Sand fly

Female
Phlebotomus

Male
Phlebotomus

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 Flies

Adult Musca domestica

Adult Glossina

Fleas

Adult male Adult female

Ctenocephalus Pulex irritans

spermatheca
Adult female
Xenopsylla cheopis

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 Lice

Adult male Pediculus Adult female Pediculus

Bugs

Adult male Cimex lectularius Adult female Cimex lectularius

Pubic louse

Winged bug Adult female Phthirus pubis

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 Ticks

Male hard tick Female hard tick

Adult soft tick

Cyclops

Male Cyclops Female Cyclops

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 Slides of helminths
Trematodes

Adult F.hepatica Fasciola cercaria

Adult F.gigantica D.M. C.M.
D.M.

Adult
H.heterophyes
C.M.

Encysted metacercaria of
Adult Heterophyes
Heterophyes in fish muscle
in small intestine
C.M.
C.M.

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 Male S.mansoni Male S.haematobium
C.M. C.M.

Female S.haematobium
Female S.mansoni
D.M.
D.M.

Male and female

Schistosoma in copula
D.M.

Cercaria of
Schistosoma
C.M.

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 Cestodes
Scolices

T.saginata scolex
T.solium scolex C.M. D.caninum scolex
C.M. C.M.

Mature segments

Mature segment
of Taenia
D.M. Mature segment
Mature segment of H.diminuta
Mature segment of D.caninum C.M.
of D.latum D.M.
D.M.

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 Gravid segments

Gravid
segment of
H.diminuta
Gravid segment of Taenia saginata C.M.
D.M. Gravid
segment of
D.caninum
D.M.

Two Cestodes shown as

whole worm

Adult H.nana worm

C.M.
Adult
E.granulosus
C.M.

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 Larval stages of Cestodes
Scolex with
circle of hooks

Cysticercoid diminuta
Cysticercus cellulosae C.M.
C.M.

Hydatid sand
C.M.

Hydatid cyst in lung

D.M.

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 Nematodes

Anterior end
of female
Enterobius
Adult male C.M.
Enterobius
C.M.

T.S. of female
A.lumbricoides
D.M.

Male
Ancylostoma
D.M. Buccal capsule of
Female
Ancylostoma
Ancylostoma
C.M.
D.M.

Female
Male T.trichiura
T.trichiura D.M.
D.M.

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 Female
Male
T.spiralis
T.spiralis
C.M.
C.M.

Encysted larva of T.spiralis in muscle

C.M.

Onchocerca nodule
C.M.

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 Eggs of helminths

Fasciola S.haematobium S.mansoni

eggs egg egg

Taenia eggs D.caninum

D.latum eggs egg capsule

Ascaris eggs Trichuris egg Enterobius eggs

All eggs come under the compound microscope

D.M. : dissecting microscope
C.M. : compound microscope

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 Protozoa
All protozoa come under the oil immersion lens
Except
B.coli that comes under the high power

Nucleus
with central
karyosome

E.histolytica E.coli cyst

E.histolytica
cyst
trophozoite
2 sucking Axostyle
discs with Cyst wall
Body is 2 nuclei
pear-shaped

Axostyle

G.lamblia Cryptosporidium parvum

G.lamblia cyst
trophozoite oocyst

Crescent-shaped
Big macronucleus Cyst wall

B.coli
Toxoplasma gondii B.coli cyst
trophozoite
trophozoites

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Oval bodies
with big
eccentric
nucleus

C-shaped with
S-shaped with big prominent
small Leishmania amastigotes kinetoplast
kinetoplast

Polymorphic trypanosomes Trypanosome cruzi in blood

Small ring with 2

cromatin dots Sausage shaped

Gametocyte stage of
Ring stage of P.falciparum
P.falciparum

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 Plasmodium vivax Amoeboid shaped,
vacuolated
Big ring filling 1/3 of infected
RBC

Trophozoite stage
Ring stage

Nucleus is divided Granular

into pieces cytoplasm
Nucleus

Schizont stage Gametocyte stage

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