Volume 10, Number 3, March 2004

Reemerging Leptospirosis, California

Elissa Meites,* Michele T. Jay,† Stanley Deresinski,†‡ Wun-Ju Shieh,§ Sherif R. Zaki,§ Lucy Tompkins,* and D. Scott Smith*¶
*Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; †California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California, USA; ‡Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California, USA; §Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and ¶Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Redwood City, California, USA

Figure 2. A: Renal biopsy shows inflammatory cell infiltrate in the interstitium and focal denudation of tubular epithelial cells. Hematoxylin and eosin; original magnifications x100. B: Immunostaining of fragmented leptospire (arrowhead) and granular form of bacterial antigens (arrows). Original magnifications x158.

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