CDC PHIL Images From This Week

CDC PHIL Images

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PHIL Images From This Week 0001567 01/16/2015 08:00 AM EDT Blood agar plate culture of Corynebacterium haemolyticum.   0001930 01/16/2015 08:00 AM EDT Clostridium botulinum growing on egg yolk agar showing the lipase reaction after 72 hours of incubation. C. botulinum is a strictly anaerobic bacterium that when grown on egg yolk agar, its colonies will exhibit a lipase reaction, described as the shiny area around each colony.   0003981 01/15/2015 08:00 AM EDT This photomicrograph demonstrates cellular changes associated with rabies encephalitis using an H&E staining technique.   0015148 01/14/15 08:00 AM EDT This image shows Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist Carol Bolden examining microscopic slides showing Exserohilum rostratum (see on computer screen) during the 2012 multistate fungal meningitis outbreak investigation.   0014821 01/13/15 08:00AM EDT Magnified 1000X, this photomicrograph depicts a number of Trypanosoma lewisi flagellate parasites that were present in a blood film specimen, and which had been highlighted using a Giemsa stain.   0000836 01/12/15 08:00AM EDT Prepared using the modified Steiner silver stain method, this photomicrograph revealed the presence of Treponema pallidum spirochetes in this tissue sample.

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