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What tissue is shown on the virtual microscope?

What are the lesions?

Is there inflammation? Why or why not?

The virtual microscope shows septic emboli that have travelled to the heart muscle.

In this patient this was a terminal even so there was no time to develop an inflammatory response.

After death, the bacteria continue to grow and divide which can significantly increase the number of bacterial cells present.