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images from the patient's peripheral smear from the day of admission, prior to initiation of antibiotics, showing morulae (intracytoplasmic basophilic inclusions) within the neutrophils.
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Ehrlichia microcolonies (see Fig. 1). Eventually, the PCR panel was positive for A. phagocytophilum.