Babesia microti seroprevalence in Minnesota blood donors

Transfusion

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1698-1705

  Tonnetti, Laura ^b   Thorp, Aaron M ^a   Deisting, Barbara ^a   Bachowski, Gary ^a   Johnson, Stephanie T ^a   Wey, Andrew R ^a   Hodges, James S ^a   Leiby, David A ^a   Mair, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA MICROTI INFECTION; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PIROPLASMOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD SAFETY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882450279     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2012.03948.x     Document Type: Article

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