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Here are the figures from: Berman JJ, Yost, B. Coccidioidomycosis versus pollen. Southern Medical Journal 82(2):277, 1989.

The full article, in Adobe Acrobat format, is available for download.

Fig 1. Pollen grains in sputa from Case 1. Pollen grains with a thin cell wall and wedging (arrow). Inset shows a larger pollen grain from the same specimen with an angular broken cell wall and internal pollen granules. (Papanicolaou's stain X730).
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Fig 2. Coccidioides immitis in sputa from Case 2. Six organisms are engulfed by a macrophage. Note variation in the morphology of the endospores from organism to organism. A perfectly round spherule with a .double refractile capsule seen as free organism in a purulent background. (Papanicolaou's stain, X730.)
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Fig 3. Caseating granuloma containing Coccidioides. Transbronchial biopsy from Case 2. (Gomori's methenamine silver, Xl00).
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Books by Jules J. Berman, covers