Detection of extracellular forms of babesia in the blood by electron microscopy: A diagnostic method for differentiation from Plasmodium falciparum

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 211-216

  Carter, William J ^a   Yan, Zhanqing ^b   Cassai, Nicholas D ^c   Sidhu, Gurdip S ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c New York Harbor Veterans Health Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia; Blood; Buffy coat; Detection; Electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; QUININE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD; BLOOD SMEAR; BUFFY COAT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MEROZOITE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; RELIABILITY; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHOZOITE; TURNOVER TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

BABESIA; CINCHONA PUBESCENS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0042335880     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120309916     Document Type: Article

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