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To the Editor: Daoust and Schapiro describe a 41-year-old man with human immunodeficiency virus infection and histoplasmosis in their Image in Clinical Medicine (March 14 issue).¹ Panel B is reported to show a segmented neutrophil with an intracellular, histoplasma-like organism. A drumstick, or Barr body, is easily discernible at the 11 o'clock position in the segmented neutrophil. One can thus conclude that it is either a transfused cell from a female donor or that the male patient had Klinefelter's syndrome. It is also interesting to note that, if transfused, this neutrophil remained viable and functionally capable of phagocytosis.

Leonard Kessler, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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