Now in pastels – white blood cells! Pictured in the grey color below, a white blood cell is seen here engulfing Aspergillus fumigatus spores. A. fumigatus is a fungus is readily found in soil, which can cause severe lung infections in the immunocompromised.
Via The Scientist (Image credit: Priyanka Narang, Manfred Rohde, and Matthias Gunzer, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, PLoS Pathogens)
Thanks for showing this picture, but you have mixed up the caption: Shown are several spores in green, which are being engulfed by a phagocytic immune cell in grey. (jgr)
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Thanks for the clarification!
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