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Photography of bone marrow smear showing massive bone marrow infiltration with amastigotes. Optical microscopy, Wright Giemsa stain, 100x magnification.
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The bone marrow smear performed 12 months after transplant revealed an unsuspected diagnosis: a massive bone marrow infiltration with amastigotes:(Figure 1 optical microscopy, Wright Giemsa stain, 100x magnification). Reticuloendothelial cells had exuberant parasitic cytoplasmatic inclusions and a few images of erythrophagocytosis were present (Figure 1).