Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in Rhode Island

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2564-2573

  Mermel, Leonard A ^a,b,c   Asad, Shadaba ^a,b,c   Sweeney, Joseph ^a,b,c  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; INFLIXIMAB; QUININE; STEROID;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PARASITE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHODE ISLAND; SEASONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71849111524     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02380.x     Document Type: Article

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