Figure 1. Endoscopic gastric mucosal biopsy specimen from an AIDS patient with severe nausea, vomiting, and epigastric pain. The gastric glands are normal except for the typical cytomegalic cell indicating cytomegalovirus infection. The cell shows a large, densely staining nucleus and abundant cytoplasm with intracytoplasmic inclusions (original magnification, x 400).

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