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View larger version (47K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Acid-Fast Organisms. A bone marrow-biopsy specimen, stained by the Ziehl-Neelsen technique (x1000), was obtained from a 47-year-old man with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome who presented with a high fever and pancytopenia. The small bright-red, rod-shaped cells (arrow) are acid-fast organisms. The larger bright-red areas are clumps of the same organisms. Despite therapy with a combination of ethambutol, clofazimine, rifampin, and ciprofloxacin, the patient died 11 days after the biopsy was performed. Bone marrow cultures subsequently grew Mycobacterium xenopi.

 

Scott Saxman, M.D.
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Ruth Ann Portman, M.T.
University of Oklahoma
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