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Image of the Week for March 26, 2007

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. This micrograph depicts an atypical enlarged lymphocyte found in the blood smear from a HPS patient. Hematologic findings are important in HPS. The large atypical lymphocyte shown here is an example of one of the laboratory findings, which when combined with a bandemia and dropping platelet count, is characteristic of HPS. See Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Red Book Online text

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