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Examine stained images distinguishing phagocytes from bacteria during phagocytosis
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Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Aschoff, Karl Albert Ludwig
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff
German pathologist

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