Fig. 1

(A) Blood smear from a male adult alpaca with Candidatus Mycoplasma haemolamae. The hemotropic bacteria appear as basophilic dots (arrows). The infection was confirmed by PCR. There is mildanisocytosis. (B) Blood smear from the same animal after five days treatment with oxytetracycline. No pathogens are visible in the blood smear, but this blood sample still revealed a positive result for CMh in the PCR.