A 55 year old male from Chennai, India manifesting with a nasal polyp (Image 1) visiting the hospital.

Tissue section of polyp has been taken and stained with Mayer’s Mucicarmine stain (Image 2) and Gomori’s Methanamine Silver stain (Image 3).

Identify the causative organism and enter your answer in comments section.

Your comments and answer will be published on 29 Nov 08.

As usual, Attractive Gifts await the first three correct entries !