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Coccidioides immitis

• Specimen: BAL

• Stain: Fungi-Fluor

• Magnification: x250
Round and variable size of immature spherules. Observe on the right side edge, a mature split open spherule. Faint staining oval endospores in the background are also noticeable.

 
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