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Volume 20, Number 5—May 2014
Letter

Babesia venatorum Infection in Child, China

Yi Sun, Shao-Gang Li, Jia-Fu Jiang, Xin Wang, Yuan Zhang, Hong Wang, and Wu-Chun CaoComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China (Y. Sun, J.-F. Jiang, X. Wang, Y. Zhang, H. Wang, W.-C. Cao); Capital Medical University, Beijing (S.-G. Li)

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A) Giemsa-stained thin blood smear for an 8-year-old boy from China showing erythrocytes with typical ring forms, paired pyriforms, and tetrads of a Babesia sp. (arrows). B) Giemsa-stained thin blood smear for a mouse with severely combined immunodeficiency, which had been injected with blood from the patient, showing Babesia sp.–infected erythrocytes (arrows). Original magnifications ×1,000.

Figure. A) Giemsa-stained thin blood smear for an 8-year-old boy from China showing erythrocytes with typical ring forms, paired pyriforms, and tetrads of a Babesia sp(arrows)B) Giemsa-stained thin blood smear for a mouse with severely combined immunodeficiency, which had been injected with blood from the patient, showing Babesia sp.–infected erythrocytes (arrows)Original magnifications ×1,000.

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