Figure 6From: Establishment of a leptospirosis model in guinea pigs using an epicutaneous inoculations route Electron photomicrographs of muscular layers around the site-inoculation of guinea pigs with leptospires inoculation on abraded skin at 144 h p.i. Leptospires were detected in the cytoplasm of vascular endothelial cells (indicated by white arrows, a and b). The damaged vascular basement membrane indicated by black arrow (b). Magnification is at 5800 (a) and 13500 (b).Back to article page