TY - JOUR ID - TI - Case report: A Ten Year Old Boy with Unexplained Hemolytic Anemia AU - Mazin Faisal Al-Jadiry AU - Aseel Rashid Abed PY - 2015 VL - 4 IS - 2 SP - 89 EP - 104 JO - Iraq Joural of Hematology المجلة العراقية لامراض الدم SN - 20728069 25432702 AB - Babesiosis is a tick - borne zoonotic disease transmitted by the intracellular protozoanfrom genus Babesia. Infection with is uncommon and symptomatic disease is mostlyconfined to splenectomized patients. It may be transmitted by blood transfusion.In splenectomized patients, the disease has an acute onset and is often fatal.Unsplenectomized patients may experience a milder self - limiting disease, althoughintravascular hemolysis does occur. The diagnosis is made from the peripheral bloodfilm, where the parasites, looking very similar to malaria, are seen inside the red cells.In this case report, we describe a child with unexplained hemolytic anemia withpresumptive diagnosis of autoimmune hemolytic anemia treated with Steroids andimmunosuppressive treatment with no response. After review of his investigation,surprisingly, his peripheral blood film revealed Babesiosis.

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