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Fig. 2 | Pneumonia

Fig. 2

From: Sex-dependent vulnerability for Wistar rats model following intranasal instillation with Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 43816 causing lobar pneumonia

Fig. 2

Photomicrographs of lung parenchyma of male (A) and female (B) Wistar rats. The inflammatory granulomas (IG: in yellow) visualised at days 0, 5, 10 and 15 post-inoculations in the pathologic lungs due to the recruitment of the polymorphonuclear cells by diapedesis towards the inflamed conjunctive tissues of pulmonary parenchyma and showing the abscess formation and destruction of alveoli in the severe stage after K. pneumoniae ATCC 43816 infection at 1.5 × 105, 1.5 × 106, 1.5 × 107 and 1.5 × 108 CFU/mL doses. (Haematoxylin & Eosin colouration X40). Br: Bronchiole; Ln: Lymphatic nodules; IG: Inflammatory granulomas; AV: Pulmonary alveoli and PA: Pulmonary arteriole

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Pneumonia

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