Volume 9, Number 8, August 2003

Molecular Characterization of a Non–Babesia divergens Organism Causing Zoonotic Babesiosis in Europe

Barbara L. Herwaldt,* Simone Cacciò,† Filippo Gherlinzoni,‡ Horst Aspöck,§ Susan B. Slemenda,* PierPaolo Piccaluga,‡ Giovanni Martinelli,‡ Renate Edelhofer,¶ Ursula Hollenstein,# Giovanni Poletti,‡ Silvio Pampiglione,‡ Karin Löschenberger,¶ Sante Tura,‡ and Norman J. Pieniazek*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; ‡University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; §Clinical Institute of Hygiene of the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ¶University of Veterinary Medicine of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and #University Hospital for Internal Medicine I, Vienna, Austria

Figure 2. Panel of computer-generated electronic images of photomicrographs of Babesia-infected erythrocytes on a Giemsa-stained smear of peripheral blood from the patient who became infected in Austria. The electronic images were edited for uniformity of color, without changing the form or size of the organisms. The image on the bottom shows a tetrad (Maltese-cross form). Three glass slides of the actual blood films have been deposited in the Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Biologiezentrum, Linz (i.e., Biology Center of the Upper Austrian Museum, Linz), with the accession number 2002/9. The slides are labeled “Babesia sp. (EU1), patient 001, Austria, Krems Land, July 25, 2000.”

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