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Volume 18, Number 1—January 2012
Dispatch

Colpodella spp.–like Parasite Infection in Woman, China

Cong L. Yuan, Patrick J. Keeling, Peter J. Krause, Ales Horak, Stephen Bent, Lindsay Rollend, and Xiu G. HuaComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China (C.L. Yuan, X.G. Hua); University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (P.J. Keeling, A. Horak); Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (P.J. Krause, S. Bent, L. Rollend)

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Morphologic appearance of infected erythrocytes of a 57-year-old woman in China and immunofluorescent antibody test results. A) Giemsa-stained thin blood smear showing erythrocyte infected with multiple ring forms (arrowhead). Scale bar = 10 µm; original magnification ×100. B) Patient serum reactive against Colpodella antigen. Scale bar = 20 µm; original magnification ×40. C) Healthy control serum not reactive against Colpodella antigen. Scale bar = 20 µm; original magnification ×40. D) Patient serum not reactive (green fluorescence) against Babesia microti antigen. Scale bar = 20 µm; original magnification ×40. E) B. microti–infected mouse serum reactive against B. microti antigen. Scale bar = 20 µm; original magnification ×40.

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