Clinical presentation and treatment of transfusion-associated babesiosis in premature infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Simonsen, Kari A ^a   Harwell, Joseph I ^b   Lainwala, Shabnam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Farmington   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia; Babesiosis parasitology; Babesiosis diagnosis; Babesiosis transmission; Blood transfusion adverse effects; Infant; Parasitemia diagnosis; Parasitemia transmission; Premature diseases; Premature parasitology

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; QUINIDINE; QUININE;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80053551787     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-0502     Document Type: Article

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