Babesia spp. 인체감염의 1예

Abstract

Authors experienced a imported case of a 28-year-old korean soldier er infected with Babesia spp, who retumed from Angola, Africa, where he had been for six months. Babesia is usually transmitted to humans by tick-bite and rarely by blood transfusion from carrier. He have subjective symptoms (chill , fever , myalgia). The illness was confused with malaria, since the clinical features and intraerythrocytic parasites are very similar. Repeated Giemsa stained blood smears revealed characteristic forms of a parasite with Babesia. There were no intracellular pigments, gametocytes , no schizonts but double , marginal or protruding, vacuolated, double, σiad， tetrad(Maltese cross) chromatins with dividing(or divided) cytoplasms were frequently found in the blood smear. The patient was treated with quinine and clidamycin. Babesia spp. were not found in peripheral blood smear after treatment. This report is a case of human babesiosis in Parasiology Laboratory, Dept. of clinical pathology, Seoul National University Hospital, Korea.