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. 2011 Mar 17;469(11):3037–3042. doi: 10.1007/s11999-011-1843-9

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Confocal micrograph of tissue adjacent to the fixation hardware removed from the patient at the time of exchange nailing. In this field, bacterial cells that appear pink because of the fluorophore associated with the Streptococcus pneumoniae species-specific FISH probe are surrounded by the capsular material that is characteristic of this pathogenic species.