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 6. Morphologic features of Candidatus Mycoplasma haemohominis isolated from a serum sample of a 42-year-old man, Japan. A) Spheres are bacterial particles with a diameter of 300–600 nm. Negative stained; scale bar indicates 200 nm. B) Bacteria on the surface of erythrocytes (arrows in the left panel). In situ hybridization showing bacteria on the surface of erythrocytes (arrows in the right panel). Giemsa stained; scale bar indicates 10 μm.
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