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To the Editor: In Case 29-2003 (Sept. 18 issue),¹ it was hypothesized that the Howell–Jolly bodies seen in the blood smear of a patient with babesiosis were actually intracellular parasites (Babesia microti). In a recent case of babesiosis in an asplenic patient at our hospital, the blood smear contained both Howell–Jolly bodies and intracellular parasites.

Our patient was a 57-year-old man with a history of gastric cancer who had undergone a total gastrectomy and splenectomy. He presented with fevers and constitutional symptoms that had begun one month earlier, after he had visited Long Island, New York. Laboratory values . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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