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From: Fatal community-acquired Bacillus cereus pneumonia in an immunocompetent adult man: a case report

Fig. 2

Histologic sections of the lung taken at autopsy. Tremendous proliferation of gram-positive rods on the alveolar wall. Severe necrosis of the alveolar wall and capillary vessel without proliferation of neutrophils (A). Hemorrhagic diffuse alveolar damage within the hyaline membrane, and pulmonary edema (B, C). The dotted immunoreactivity of the B. cereus antibody was observed on the bacterium and spores (D, E)

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