Fig. 2
From: Encephalitozoon cuniculi infection in farmed rabbits in Egypt
Photomicrographs of E. cuniculi in the brain of rabbits. a Severe diffuse non-suppurative leptomeningitis and diffuse gliosis (H&E. Obj ×20), b perivascular lymphocytic cuff and glial nodule, c glial nodule with central necrosis and rod to ovoid-shaped mature E. cuniculi spores, and d mature E. cuniculi spores intracellularly in neurons (H&E, Obj ×40), e parasitophorous vacuoles (arrows) and f free spores of E. cuniculi (arrow) by toluidine blue (Obj ×100), and g bluish-stained rod to ovoid-shaped E. cuniculi at the periphery of the glial nodule in the brain (Giemsa stain, Obj ×20), h liver with bluish-stained rod to ovoid-shaped E. cuniculi by Giemsa stain (Obj ×60)