Babesia microti: An unusual travel-related disease

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Poisnel, Elodie ^a   Ebbo, Mikael ^a   Berda Haddad, Yael ^a   Faucher, Benoit ^a   Bernit, Emmanuelle ^a   Carcy, Bernard ^b   Piarroux, Renaud ^a   Harlé, Jean Robert ^a   Schleinitz, Nicolas ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Babesia microti; Babesiosis; Hemophagocytosis; Travel related diseases

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FERRITIN; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; QUININE;

AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BABESIA MICROTI; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SMEAR; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPENIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; JAUNDICE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROSCOPY; NEUTROPENIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PIROPLASMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BONE MARROW; FRANCE; HUMANS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874056038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-99     Document Type: Article

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