Sporotrichosis

 

 

An asteroid body composed of a central fungal cell surrounded by Splendore-Hoeppli material.

 Infection with Sporothrix schenckii provokes a suppurative and/or granulomatous reaction.

 

From the slide collection of the late Dr. Charles Kuhn

 

 

1 minute clinical correlation

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