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Volume 11, Number 5—May 2005
Dispatch

Human Pythiosis, Brazil

Sandra de Moraes Gimenes Bosco*, Eduardo Bagagli*Comments to Author , João Pessoa Araújo*, João Manuel Grisi Candeias*, Marcello Fabiano de Franco†, Mariangela Esther Alencar Marques*, Leonel Mendoza‡, Rosangela Pires de Camargo*, and Silvio Alencar Marques*
Author affiliations: *Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil; †Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; ‡Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

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Figure 2

Biopsied section of the lesion: A) branch and broad hyphal fragment of Pythium insidiosum (Gomori methemine silver, magnification ×200); B) hyphal fragment surrounded by inflammatory cells (hematoxylin and eosin [HE], magnification ×200); C) hyphal fragment surrounded by eosinophilic material, which suggests a Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon (HE, magnification ×200).

Figure 2. . Biopsied section of the lesion: A) branch and broad hyphal fragment of Pythium insidiosum (Gomori methemine silver, magnification ×200); B) hyphal fragment surrounded by inflammatory cells (hematoxylin and eosin [HE], magnification ×200); C) hyphal fragment surrounded by eosinophilic material, which suggests a Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon (HE, magnification ×200).

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