In addition to the images of the human we show here a slide from the intestinal mucosa of a bat, which was caught in a cave of the Venezuelan Andes. In this region histoplasmosis is endemic. The habitat of H. caps. var. capsulatum are caves and chicken coops. They reach these places through the bats. In our slide the fungus cells are clearly seen in the submucosa of the bat intestine with the Grocott stain.
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