Candidatus Mycoplasma haemohominis in Human, Japan
Norimichi Hattori
1 , Makoto Kuroda
1, Harutaka Katano
1, Takahiro Takuma
1, Takayoshi Ito
1, Nana Arai, Ryo Yanai, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Sho Ishii, Yoko Miura, Takahiro Tokunaga, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Norihiro Nomura, Junichi Eguchi, Hideki Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi Nakamaki, Takaji Wakita, and Yoshihito Niki
Author affiliations: Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (N. Hattori, T. Takuma, N. Arai, R. Yanai, S. Ishii, Y. Miura, T. Tokunaga, T. Nakamaki, Y. Niki); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo (M. Kuroda, H. Katano, T. Sekizuka, H. Hasegawa, T. Wakita); Showa Uuniversity Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo (T. Ito, H. Watanabe, N. Nomura, J. Eguchi)
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Figure 3. Distribution of Candidatus Mycoplasma haemohominis in a 42-year-old man, Japan. A) Peripheral blood smear showing coccoid forms. Small basophilic bodies are present on the surface of and outside erythrocytes (arrows). Arrowhead indicates a platelet. Giemsa stained. B) Hemophagocytosis (arrow) in bone marrow aspirate. Giemsa stained. C) Bone marrow biopsy specimen showing infiltration of plasma cells (arrows). Hematoxylin and eosin stained. Scale bars indicate 20 μm.
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