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H Hellsten1, F Linell, A Rausing
1Institute of Pathology, University of Lund, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 22, 2015
Abstract:
Abstract "Sergentella spiroides" is a filamentous fungal spore which can incidentally contaminate smears. In Romanowsky stainings the spores are confusingly like microfilariae and it is important to recognize the phenomenon to avoid diagnostic mistakes.
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