Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in an immunocompromised patient: A case report and review

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 800-805

  Wudhikarn, Kitsada ^a,b   Perry, Elizabeth H ^c   Kemperman, Melissa ^d   Jensen, Kathy A ^c   Kline, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Memorial Blood Centers of Minnesota   (United States)

^d MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemovigilance; Immunocompromised hosts; Transfusion transmitted babesiosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8 CONCENTRATE; CLINDAMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; QUININE; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANEMIA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINDAMYCIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; QUININE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 80052032691     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.03.009     Document Type: Review

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