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Peripheral blood film from a patient with fever, severe myalgia, thrombocytopenia, and leukopenia.
A tick-borne infectious disease caused by Ehrlichia phagocytophilia , a small, coccoid bacterium with a Gram-negative cell wall. The leukocyte in the image contains a morula (arrow),a mulberry-like cytoplasmic cluster of ehrlichiae.
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