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Volume 24, Number 8—August 2018
Dispatch

Anncaliia algerae Microsporidial Myositis, New South Wales, Australia

Gaurav Sutrave, Adam Maundrell, Caitlin Keighley, Zoe Jennings, Susan Brammah, Min-Xia Wang, Roger Pamphlett, Cameron E. Webb, Damien Stark, Helen Englert, David Gottlieb, Ian Bilmon, and Matthew R. WattsComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia (G. Sutrave, A. Maundrell, C. Keighley, C.E. Webb, H. Englert, D. Gottlieb, I. Bilmon, M.R. Watts); University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (G. Sutrave, M.-X. Wang, R. Pamphlett, C.E. Webb, D. Gottlieb, I. Bilmon, M.R. Watts); New South Wales Health Pathology Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead (Z. Jennings, C.E. Webb, M.R. Watts); Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord West, New South Wales, Australia (S. Brammah); St. Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia (D. Stark)

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Figure 1

Light micrographs of Gomori trichrome–stained frozen sections of vastus lateralis muscle from a 66-year-old man with Anncaliia algerae microsporidial myositis, New South Wales, Australia. A) Necrotising myositis with red-stained, ovoid spores in green-staining viable myocytes (solid arrows) and within macrophages invading necrotic myocytes (open arrows). B) A cluster of red stained, 2–3 µm spores within a viable myocyte. Scale bars = 25 µm.

Figure 1. Light micrographs of Gomori trichrome–stained frozen sections of vastus lateralis muscle from a 66-year-old man with Anncaliia algerae microsporidial myositis, New South Wales, Australia. A) Necrotising myositis with red-stained, ovoid spores in green-staining viable myocytes (solid arrows) and within macrophages invading necrotic myocytes (open arrows). B) A cluster of red stained, 2–3 µm spores within a viable myocyte. Scale bars indicate 25 µm.

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