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This was a photomicrograph of an unspecified tissue specimen, that had been harvested from a Legionnaires’ disease patient, highlighting the presence of numerous Legionella pneumophila bacteria, which can be seen situated both extra- and intracellularly within the white blood cells that had responded to the infection.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Martin D. Hicklin, MD
Creation Date: 1978
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