A case report of Borrelia spirochetes found in a blood smear from a patient with fever and thrombocytopenia, illustrating the morphological picture of tick-borne borreliosis (Lyme disease).
🔬Lyme disease (tick-borne borreliosis). A case from a subscriber doctor from Israel🇮🇱.
✅We diagnose 2-3 cases per year, often as an incidental finding when examining a blood smear for thrombocytopenia (characteristic of this disease).
✅In this case, a 46-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with a temperature of 39.5 and non-localized muscle pain.
✅In peripheral blood: leukocytes 8.73×109, hemoglobin 140 g/l, platelets - 48×109.
A clinical case of Neisseria gonorrhoeae detection in a urethral smear from a 34-year-old man. Microscopic findings of Gram-negative diplococci within neutrophils.
A clinical case of Neisseria gonorrhoeae detection in a urethral smear from a 30-year-old male: microscopic findings of gonorrhea with intracellular diplococci.
A clinical case of bacteremia in severe sepsis: leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, procalcitonin level 84.6 ng/mL, and bacteria in the blood smear.
