Identification?
What is the likely species involved in this case?
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Case of the Week 397
This week's case is a blood specimen from an elderly gentleman from Arkansas. He is asplenic and has received multiple blood transfusions for chronic anemia. Below are images from Wright-Giemsa stained thin films taken by our Clinical Microbiology fellow, Poornima.
Identification?
What is the likely species involved in this case?
Identification?
What is the likely species involved in this case?
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Babesia, beautiful "Maltese cross" in the first picture
Babesia...Do you see much of that in the area, In Arkansas? Could also be transfusion related though...
Woo hoo, babesia! Most likely B.microti
I have a question: Why does Babesia form the tetrad? is it the asexual reproduction of one ring to 4? It doesn't look like a multiple infection or other stage of development.
Beautiful Babesia...Lee
Never saw crosses like that in real life!
Babesia sp. What a beautiful sight!!
Babesia
I wonder how long he was infected
Nice case of Babesia, most likely microstrip.
Florida Fan
Babesia sp very beautiful Giemsa staining of the blood specimen.
Sorry for the mispelling, I meant Babesia microtti. The not always wonderful "Spelling Check" program simply threw me a curved ball.
Florida Fan
Babesia sp.- PCR for species identification would be helpful.Babesia duncani,microti,divergens, and the MO-1 strain should be considered.Missouri borders Arkansas.
TTB - transfusion transmitted B. microti
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