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What is Cigar bodies are seen in? and explain in detail?
In sporotrichosis, direct microscopic examination of KOH mounts of necrotic materials or histopathological examination of tissue section stained by methamine silver stain may yield a diagnosis. The characteristics feature is the asteroid body or cigar body: a rounded or oval, basophilic,yeast-like, cigar-shaped body 3-5micron in diameter, with rays of an eosinophilic substance radiating from the yeast cell. Ref:Anantha Narayan and Panickers Textbook of Microbiology, 9th edition, page no.602