Zoonotic babesiosis: Overview of the disease and novel aspects of pathogen identity

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  Gray, Jeremy ^a   Zintl, Annetta ^a   Hildebrandt, Anke ^b   Hunfeld, Klaus Peter ^c   Weiss, Louis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Academic Teaching Hospital   (Germany)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia; Ixodes; Pathogen identity; Pathology; Prevention; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN;

BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA SENSU; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BABESIOSIS; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

APICOMPLEXA; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; CERVIDAE; IXODES; IXODIDA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 77949290797     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2009.11.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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