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Volume 24, Number 8—August 2018
Dispatch

Death from Transfusion-Transmitted Anaplasmosis, New York, USA, 2017

Ruchika GoelComments to Author , Lars F. Westblade, Debra A. Kessler, Maroun Sfeir, Sally Slavinski, Bryon Backenson, Linda Gebhardt, Kathleen Kane, Jeffrey Laurence, Douglas Scherr, James Bussel, J. Stephen Dumler, and Melissa M. Cushing

Author affiliations: Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA (R. Goel, L.F. Westblade, M. Sfeir, J. Laurence, D. Scherr, J. Bussel, M.M. Cushing); New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York (R. Goel, K. Kane, M.M. Cushing); New York Blood Center, New York (D.A. Kessler); New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Wadsworth, New York, USA (S. Slavinski, B. Backenson); Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA (L. Gebhardt); Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (J.S. Dumler)

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Figure 1

Anaplasma phagocytophilum morulae observed on peripheral blood smear from patient in whom anaplasmosis infection developed after a blood transfusion, New York, New York, USA. Intracytoplasmic inclusions (morulae) were first seen 15 days after the patient was transfused with an infected erythrocyte unit, leading to a diagnosis of human granulocytic anaplasmosis later confirmed by PCR (original magnification ×1,000 [oil immersion]).

Figure 1. Anaplasma phagocytophilum morulae observed on peripheral blood smear from patient in whom anaplasmosis infection developed after a blood transfusion, New York, New York, USA. Intracytoplasmic inclusions (morulae) were first seen 15 days after the patient was transfused with an infected erythrocyte unit, leading to a diagnosis of human granulocytic anaplasmosis later confirmed by PCR (original magnification ×1,000 [oil immersion]).

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