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Leishmaniasis in bone marrow aspirate - 1.

Leishmaniasis in bone marrow aspirate - 1.
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Author: Salmin Muftah; Jacqueline Costello; Ruth Padmore; Amal Alfakri; Nureddin A Daghman;
Category: Infectious Disease > Parasites > Leishmania
Published Date: 11/01/2009

Patient is a 6-year-old child with leishmaniasis who presented with fever and mild splenomegaly. This bone marrow aspirate shows extracellular amastigotes, each containing a nucleus and a bar shaped kinetoplast. Wright-Giemsa stain, original magnification 100× (oil).