Neutrophil morphology in severe bacterial sepsis: visualizing incomplete bacterial phagocytosis within leukocyte cytoplasm in a blood smear.
Incomplete phagocytosis in neutrophils. Blood smear photo from the archive. It is only known that the patient had HIV and sepsis.
🙏 The clinical case was kindly provided by Vera Kirnas, Biologist, Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, F.S. Ankudinov Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Hospital.
Severe cytoplasmic vacuolization of neutrophils in a blood smear from a surgical patient: morphology in severe bacterial infection.
Morphology of green crystals of death in neutrophils: the significance of blue-green inclusions, Döhle bodies, and bacteremia in severe sepsis.
A clinical case of bacteremia in severe sepsis: leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, procalcitonin level 84.6 ng/mL, and bacteria in the blood smear.
