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SUBMITTER: Steer JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3205199 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Steer Jane A JA Tasker Séverine S Barker Emily N EN Jensen Jørgen J Mitchell Joanne J Stocki Teresa T Chalker Victoria J VJ Hamon Mike M
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20111021 11
A patient with chronic moderate neutropenia, acute hemolysis, and pyrexia was found to be infected with a novel hemoplasma species. A clinical response to doxycyline was noted, and moxifloxacin was added subsequently to aid infection clearance. This represents the first report of hemolysis in association with confirmed hemoplasma infection in a human. ...[more]