Leishmania in Bone Marrow Aspirate: Morphology

Morphological features of leishmaniasis in bone marrow aspirate: detection of Leishmania amastigotes within macrophages and their structural characteristics.

Editorial team 1 min July 26, 2022

Bone marrow aspirate smear: macrophage with numerous Leishmania amastigotes

LEISHMANIASIS Bone marrow aspirate. The features of intracellular Leishmania are easily recognizable due to their preferential localization within macrophages and their distinctive morphology: oval cytoplasm and a hyperchromatic eccentric nucleus: like the nucleus, with perinuclear clearing. Source: Giuseppe d’Onofrio - Morphology of Blood Disorders 2015

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