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One of Koch's first photographs of Bacillus anthracis in diseased tissue, rabbit liver section

(x700) Section of liver from rabbit dying of anthrax. All capillaries are more or less filled with anthrax bacilli. Individual anthrax bacilli appear in the capillary network surrounding the liver cells. (Source: Koch R. Zur Untersuchung von pathogen Organism. Mitheilungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundhetisamte 1881a;1:1-48. Table V. No. 26.)

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