Electron micrograph of a vacuolated glial cell seen in a stereotactic brain biopsy from a patient with a stealth virus encephalopathy. Small, dark, viral-like particles can be seen. Note the adjacent empty and lipid-filled vacuoles in the lower right side of the cell. The round body in the upper left is an axon surrounded by a myelin sheath.


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