| human babesiosis in taiwan: asymptomatic infection with a babesia microti-like organism in a taiwanese woman. | an asymptomatic babesia infection was confirmed by laboratory diagnoses. the intraerythrocytic protozoan (designed tw1) isolated from a 51-year-old taiwanese woman appeared to be morphologically consistent with small-form piroplasm, and measurements indicated that it had a body size of 1.5 to 2.5 microm in diameter. the typical features of ring, binary, and tetrad forms were observed in giemsa-stained thin blood smears. a persistent and low-grade parasitemia was established after hamster inocula ... | 1997 | 9003614 |