Skin: Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii - apposition [MGG stainx1000]

African histoplasmosis. In tissue sections, Histoplasma capsulatum var. duboisii appears as large lemon shaped yeasts (8-15×5 µm), with narrow based unipolar budding cells, sometimes short 3 yeast-chains. These yeasts are intra or extracellular.