Intraleukocytic Yeast Inclusions and Toxic Granulation Neutrophils On
ISSN: 2474-3658 Miglietta et al. J Infect Dis Epidemiol 2019, 5:067 DOI: 10.23937/2474-3658/1510067 Volume 5 | Issue 1 Journal of Open Access Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology CASE REPORT Intraleukocytic Yeast Inclusions and Toxic Granulation Neutrophils on Peripheral Blood Smear: An Interesting Synergy between Hema- tology and Microbiology Fabio Miglietta1, Claudio Palumbo1, Fernando Parente2, Luciano Velardi3, Rosella Matera4, Luigi Conte4, Michela Dargenio4, Maurizio Quarta5, Milva Maria Nuzzo5, Nicola Di Renzo4 and Giambattista Lobreglio6 1Laboratory of Microbiology, Vito Fazzi Regional Hospital, Lecce, Italy 2Medicine Unit, Vito Fazzi Regional Hospital, Lecce, Italy 3Istituto di Nanotecnologia, CNR-Nanotec, Bari, Italy Check for 4Department of Hematology, Vito Fazzi Regional Hospital, Lecce, Italy updates 5Infectious Diseases Unit , Vito Fazzi Regional Hospital, Lecce, Italy 6Laboratory of Clinical Pathology, Vito Fazzi Regional Hospital, Lecce, Italy *Corresponding authors: Dr. Fabio Miglietta, Laboratory of Microbiology, Vito Fazzi Regional Hospital, 83, Montegrappa Street, 73018, Squinzano, Lecce, Italy, Tel: +39-3492548568, Fax: +39-0832782033 by poor sensitivity and slow turn-around time [2] while Abstract β-D-glucan detection demonstrates variable sensitivity The presence of yeast neutrophil inclusions was observed depending on the cut-off diagnostic value and on and discussed several times in other reports; moreover some works demonstrated how Toxic Granulation Neutrophils the Candida species under consideration. This last
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