Pneumococcal Bacterial Meningitis

 

 

 

These microphotos are from the same case. In A one can see an inflammatory exudate packing the meninges. 

B shows the predominance of neutrophils in the exudate. C is from a gram stain showing gram positive diplococci.

 

Contributed by Drs John Donahue and Alexander Chirkov.

 

1 minute clinical correlation

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