Case of the Week 477

This week ' s case was generously donated by Dr. Piryanka Uprety and the excellent Clinical Microbiology and Hematology Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania. The following structures were initially observed by a hematology fellow in a wet mount (40X) from a BAL specimen. Photographs and videos are courtesy of Joyce Richardson, Vivian Whitener, and Darrin Jengehino from the Hematology Laboratory.Wet preparation of the BAL fluid with iodine showed the following:Identification?

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