looks like amastigotes

Wed Mar 17 13:29:24 BRT 1999

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Dear all;
I will show you a photograph of bone marrow puncture slide stained by =
Giemsa at (http://med.ege.edu.tr/~mkorkmaz/suspect.htm ). The patient =
suspected as kala-azar and it was sended for searching Leishmania =
amastigotes. There was no amastigotes? at the slide.  Leishmaniasis =
serology (IFA,ELISA) negative.=20
But I saw a different organism and showed it to microbiology and =
pathology department. They could not give an idea about it. When I asked =
could be Histoplasma capsulatum? They say no. Please help me if any one =
knows this organism. Thank you in advance.

Seray Ozensoy, MD

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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I will show you a photograph of bone =
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). The patient suspected as kala-azar and it was sended for searching =
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amastigotes. There was no amastigotes? at the slide.  Leishmaniasis =
serology=20
(IFA,ELISA) negative. </FONT></DIV>
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showed it to=20
microbiology and pathology department. They could not give an idea about =
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When I asked could be Histoplasma capsulatum? They say no. Please help =
me if any=20
one knows this organism. Thank you in advance.</FONT></DIV>
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