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Peripheral blood film from a 40-year-old, terminally ill woman with carcinoma of the cervix.
The leukocyte shown in the blood film contains yeast-phase organisms. Cultures of the blood and bone marrow grew Histoplasma capsulatum . Disseminated histoplasmosis typically occurs in immunodeficient patients, most commonly those withAIDS.
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