Happy new year-  more posts coming soon- In the meantime a new diagnostic dilemma:  Answer next week!

This was the blood agar plate obtained from a 47 year old female from Brazil who was later found to have E. coli bacteremia. The contents of the plate began moving away from the center. What’s in this plate?

1. Enterobius vermicularis
2. Hookworm infection
3. Leishmania species
4. Schistosome mansonii
5. Strongyloides stercoralis
6. Trichuris trichuria