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- Title
Babesia infection through blood transfusions: reports received by the US Food and Drug Administration, 1997-2007.
- Authors
Gubernot, Diane M; Lucey, Charles T; Lee, Karen C; Conley, Gilliam B; Holness, Leslie G; Wise, Robert P
- Abstract
Human babesiosis is an illness with clinical manifestations that range from asymptomatic to fatal. Although babesiosis is not nationally notifiable, the US incidence appears to be increasing. Babesia infection is a transfusion-transmissable disease. An estimated 70 cases were reported during 1979-2007; most of these cases were reported during the past decade.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1086/595010