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Donovan bodies

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Donovan bodies
Rod-shaped oval organisms found in tissue samples from patients with granuloma inguinale. Donovan bodies appear deep purple when stained with Wright's stain.
Mentioned in: Granuloma Inguinale

Donovan bodies
[don′əvan]
Etymology: Charles Donovan, Irish physician, 1863-1951
encapsulated gram-negative rods of the species Calymmatobacterium granulomatis, present in the cytoplasm of mononuclear phagocytes obtained from the lesions of granuloma inguinale. They may be seen under the microscope in a Wright-stained smear of infected tissue. See also granuloma inguinale.


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