FIGURE 1 Peripheral blood smear multiple yeasts in neutrophil (arrow). 1,000x magnification – Giemsa staining). A 40-year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, diagnosed in 2008, and irregular use of antiretroviral therapy, was admitted to the emergency room with diarrhea, asthenia, fever, and weight loss of 4kg in the previous 10 days. His evacuations were watery, with no ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis control program of Rwanda is currently phasing in light emitting diode-fluorescent microscopy (LED-FM) as an alternative to Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) smear microscopy. This, alongside the newly introduced Xpert (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) is expected to improve diagnosis of tuberculosis and detection of rifampicin resistance in patients at health facilities. We assessed the a...

On May 27, 2013, an 81-yr-old man visited Wonkwang University Sanbon Hospital with chief complaints of fever, chills, and myalgia lasting for 1 month. The patient had a 5-yr history of intermittent pitting edema of both legs. A diagnosis of cholangitis was made on the basis of right upper quadrant tenderness of the abdomen and computerized tomography (CT) findings. CT showed common bile duct di...

Congenital hemolytic anemia associated fancy. The peripheral blood smear is charwith pyrimidine 5’-nucleotidase deficiency acterized by striking red cell basophilic is reported in two siblings. Both have had stippling. As this feature has been found moderate chronic hemolytic anemia, splein all previously reported cases, it should nomegaly, and jaundice since early inbe the clue to the diagnosis.

The peripheral blood smear is an easy method for the diagnosis of symptomatic visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected patients. However, its efficiency in diagnosing subclinical VL remains unknown. In this study, Leishmania amastigotes were seen in blood smears from 1 of 13 HIV-1-positive individuals with subclinical VL. This shows that this procedure...

Background: Covid-19 pandemic has affected almost all the inhabited areas on our planet. Researchers are working hard to bring this disease its resolution. There is emerging evidence everyday point towards altered parameters in body. Complete blood picture and peripheral smears also showing considerable changes. These changes can help raise suspicion of infection at earliest. This us future dif...