Microscopic examination of cerebrospinal fluid in meningococcal infection. Neutrophilic cytosis, intracellular and extracellular diplococci in the smear.
Meningococcus. Cerebrospinal Fluid.
🙏 Photos kindly provided by Inna Storozheva, Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory of the Regional Hospital, Kaliningrad.
Microscopic findings of generalized meningococcal infection. Phagocytosis of diplococci by neutrophils in peripheral blood smear and CSF preparation.
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