Fig. 10. Intracytoplasmic inclusions in a conjunctival epithelial cell (Giemsa stain). Such inclusions can be found easily in newborns with inclusion conjunctivitis but are less common in older children and adults with inclusion conjunctivitis and trachoma. These inclusions are in cytoplasm and consist of individual elementary bodies (the small infective forms) or larger initial bodies (the intracellular replicative forms). |