Fatal transfusion-transmitted Babesia microti in the Midwest

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-

  Blue, Deborah ^a   Graves, Vicki ^a   McCarthy, Leo ^a   Cruz, Jules ^a   Gregurek, Steven ^a   Smith, Daniel ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; QUINIDINE; QUININE;

ADULT; BABESIA MICROTI; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BROOD PARASITISM; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEATH; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; KIDNEY DISEASE; NAUSEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHORT SURVEY; TICK BITE; TROPHOZOITE; UNITED STATES; WOOD;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; CLINDAMYCIN; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; QUINIDINE; QUININE; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 58149138812     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01883.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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