Fulminant babesiosis treated with clindamycin, quinine, and whole-blood exchange transfusion

Transfusion

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 375-380

  Dorman, S E ^b   Cannon, Marie E ^a   Telford III, S R ^b   Frank, K M ^b   Churchill, W H ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; QUININE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BABESIOSIS; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PARASITEMIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TICK BITE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIMALARIALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CLINDAMYCIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CREATININE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUININE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 0034064085     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2000.40030375.x     Document Type: Article

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