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Spirochete seen on the blood smear of a febrile patient
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relapsing fever
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  • A wonderful color illustration. [102]
  • Another color illustration. Staining with acridine orange highlights the spirochete. [103]
  • Review, with section on relapsing fever. [104]
  • Gram-positive bacteria visible on blood smear. [106]
  • Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative organism of Chagas disease, "can frequently be seen on microscopical examination of anticoagulated blood or buffy coat, and these organisms can also be seen in stained smears." [105]
    Footnotes in Print Edition[Top] [Nav]
    (1) Infectious Diseases (Pocket Picture Guides to Clinical Medicine).
  Farrar WE, Lambert HP. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1984: 52,70.   Amazon.com
    (2) Scientific American Medicine.
  Rubenstein E, Federman DD, et al. NY: Scientific American: February 1988;7:VII:3-5 [chapter = Relman DA, et al. Leptospirosis, relapsing fever, rat-bite fever, and Lyme disease].
    (3) Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
  Braude A, et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1981: 490-495.   Amazon.com
    (-) Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases.
  Balows A, et al. NY: Springer, 1988: 105-110.   Amazon.com
    New References[Top] [Nav]
    101.Relapsing fever: new lessons about antibiotic action.
  Butler TC.   Ann Intern Med 1985 Mar;102(3):397-9.  Pubmed  Similars
    102.Images in clinical medicine. Relapsing fever.
  Newton JA, Pepper PV.   N Engl J Med 1996 Oct 17;335(16):1197.  Pubmed  Similars
    103.Images in clinical medicine. Borreliosis.
  Cooper RI, Neuhauser T.   N Engl J Med 1998 Jan 22;338(4):231.  Pubmed  Similars
    104.Tick-borne diseases in the United States [see comments].
  Spach DH, Liles WC, et al.   N Engl J Med 1993 Sep 23;329(13):936-47.  Pubmed  Similars
    105.American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease)--a tropical disease now in the United States.
  Kirchhoff LV.   N Engl J Med 1993 Aug 26;329(9):639-44.  Pubmed  Similars
Other critters visible on blood smear
    106.Progress in pediatric solid tumors.
  Kaufman BH.   Mayo Clin Proc 1986 Apr;61(4):269-77.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
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