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Washington University Experience | INFECTION | Parasites | Neurocysticercosis | 1B3 Cysticercosis (Case 1) H&E 3

Successively higher magnifications of the organism demonstrate a distinctive outer or cuticular layer (arrow) which has marked eosinophilia and an area with focal mineralization (arrowheads), and has hair-like protrusions (called microtrichia), seen best at high magnification in 1B4,5 (H&E).

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