Case report: Spontaneous splenic rupture during acute parasitemia of Babesia microti

Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 390-392

  Froberg, M Kent ^a,e   Dannen, Devon ^a   Bernier, Nicholas ^b   Shieh, Wun Ju ^c   Guarner, Jeannette ^c,d   Zaki, Sherif ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b St Joseph's Medical Center   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Virginia Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia microti; Babesiosis; Rupture of spleen

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; QUININE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANAPLASMOSIS; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; CASE REPORT; CHILL; FEVER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; IXODES; MALE; MYALGIA; PARASITEMIA; PEROMYSCUS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TICK; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; IXODES; IXODIDA; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 55949136876     PISSN: 00917370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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