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- Title
Transfusion-associated babesiosis in the United States: a description of cases.
- Authors
Herwaldt, Barbara L; Linden, Jeanne V; Bosserman, Elizabeth; Young, Carolyn; Olkowska, Danuta; Wilson, Marianna
- Abstract
Babesiosis is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by intraerythrocytic parasites, which usually are tickborne but also are transmissible by transfusion. Tickborne transmission of Babesia microti mainly occurs in 7 states in the Northeast and the upper Midwest of the United States. No Babesia test for screening blood donors has been licensed.
- Publication
Annals of internal medicine, 2011, Vol 155, Issue 8, p509
- ISSN
1539-3704
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-155-8-201110180-00362