Asteroid bodies and cigar shaped globi may be produced by-
Correct Answer: Sporotrichosis
Description: Sporotrichosis or Rose Gardner's disease - Chronic subcutaneous pyogranulomatous disease Caused by a thermally dimorphic fungus Sporothrix schenckii. Mould: Flower like sporulation Laboratory Diagnosis: Direct Microscopy by H and E staining of tissue sections reveals cigar shaped asteroid bodies. It is described as central basophilic yeast cell surrounded by eosinophilic mass, composed of antigen-antibody complexes. Such eosinophilic halo is described as Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon.
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