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In this report,Eperythrozoon leading haemolysis was identified in human blood. A patient with long-term anaemia was selected for blood smear examination and electron microscopy. The microscopic results showed a lot of small organisms attaching on the surface of erythrocytes. The partial 16S rRNA gene was amplified and confirmed as haemoplasma by sequence alignment. Phylogenetic analysis showed it fell in the same cluster with otherEperythrozoon species in haemoplasma group. It was the first time to confirm the haemoplasma infection in human blood by molecular assay combined with microscope. Such infection may be a potential criminal of some cases of human unknown origin anaemia.
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Yuan, C., Liang, A., Yu, F. et al. Eperythrozoon infection identified in an unknown aetiology anaemia patient. Ann. Microbiol. 57, 467–469 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03175091
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