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Microsporidian spores.

Host: 

sculpin (unspecified)

Host tissue: 

skin

Photographer / Illustrator: 

Stephen Atkinson

Pathogen life stage: 

spore
cyst

Image type: 

Light Micrograph
Phase Contrast
Ruptured microsporidian cyst showing individual spores.
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