Environmental investigation following the first human case of babesiosis in Tennessee

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 106-109

  Fritzen, Charissa ^a   Mosites, Emily ^a   Applegate, Roger D ^a,b   Huang, Junjun ^a   Yabsley, Michael J ^a,c,d   Carpenter, L Rand ^a   Dunn, John R ^a   Moncayo, Abelardo C ^a  

^a TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES AGENCY   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TICK;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA ODOCOILEI; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; IXODES SCAPULARIS; NONHUMAN; PIROPLASMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYLVILAGUS; SYLVILAGUS FLORIDANUS; TICK; UNITED STATES; WHITE TAILED DEER;

TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CRICETINAE; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IXODES; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; RABBITS; SPLENECTOMY; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84896851802     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/12-158.1     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. ARMSTRONG, P. M., P. KATAVOLOS, D. A. CAPORALE, R. P. SMITH, A. SPIELMAN, AND S. R. TELFORD III. 1998. Diversity of Babesia infecting deer ticks (Ixodes dammini). American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 58: 739-742.
2. CHAMBERLAND,M. E., J. EPSTEIN, R.Y. DODD, D. PERSING, R.G. WILL, A. DEMARIA JR., J. C. EMMANUEL, B. PIERCE, AND R. KHABBAZ. 1998. Blood safety. Emerging Infectious Diseases 4: 410-411.
3. CHISOLM, E. S., T. K. RUEBUSH II, A. J. SULZER, AND G. R. HEALY. 1978. Babesia microti infection in man: Evaluation of an indirect immunofluorescent antibody test. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 27: 14-19.
4. FITZPATRICK, J. E., C. C. KENNEDY, M.G. MCGEOWN, D. G. OREOPOULOS, J. H. ROBERTSON, AND M. A. SOYANNWO. 1968. Human case of piroplasmosis (babesiosis). Nature 217: 861-862.
5. FLORIN-CHRISTENSEN, M., AND L. SCHNITTGER. 2009. Piroplasmids and ticks: A long-lasting intimate relationship. Front Bioscience 14: 3064-3073.
6. GOETHERT, H. K., AND S. R. TELFORD III. 2003. Enzootic transmission of Babesia divergens among cottontail rabbits on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 69: 455-460.
7. GOFF, W. L., D. A. JESSUP, K. A. WALDRUP, J. W. THOMFORD, P. A. CONRAD, W. M. BOYCE, J. R. GORHAM, AND G. G. WAGNER. 1993. The isolation and partial characterization of a Babesia sp. from desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 40: 237-243.
8. GORENFLOT, A., K. MOUBRI, E. PRECIGOUT, AND B. CARCY. 1998. Human babesiosis. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 92: 489-501.
9. GUBERNOT, D. M., C. T. LUCEY, K. C. LEE, G. B. CONLEY, L. G. HOLNESS, AND R. P. WISE. 2009. Babesia infection through blood transfusions: Reports received by the US Food and Drug Administration, 1997-2007. Clinical Infectious Diseases 48: 25-30.
10. HATCHER, J. C., P. D. GREENBERG, J. ANTIQUE, AND V. E. JIMENEZ-LUCHO. 2001. Severe babesiosis in Long Island: Review of 34 cases and their complications. Clinical Infectious Diseases 32: 1117-1125.
11. HERWALDT, B. L., G. DE BRUYN, N. J. PIENIAZEK, M. HOMER, K. H. LOFY, S. B. SLEMENDA, T. R. FRITSCHE, D. H. PERSING, AND A. P. LIMAYE. 2004. Babesia divergens-like infection in Washington State. Emerging Infectious Diseases 10: 622-629.
12. -, A. M. KJEMTRUP, P.A. CONRAD, R. C. BARNES, M. WILSON, M.G. MCCARTHY, M.H. SAYERS, AND M. L. EBERHARD. 1997. Transfusiontransmitted babesiosis in Washington State: First reported case caused by a WA1-type parasite. Journal of Infectious Diseases 175: 1259-1262.
13. -, D. F. NEITZEL, J. B. GORLIN, K. A. JENSEN, E. H. PERRY, W. R. PEGLOW, S. B. SLEMENDA, K. Y. WON, E. K. NACE, N. J. PIENIAZEK et al. 2002. Transmission of Babesia microti in Minnesota through four blood donations from the same donor over a 6-month period. Transfusion 42: 1154-1158.
14. -, D. H. PERSING, E. A. PRÉCIGOUT, W. L. GOFF, D. A. MATHIESEN, P. W. TAYLOR, M. L. EBERHARD, AND A. F. GORENFLOT. 1996. A fatal case of babesiosis in Missouri: Identification of another piroplasm that infects humans. Annals Internal Medicine 124: 643-650.
15. -, F. E. SPRINGS, P. P. ROBERTS, M. L. EBERHARD, K. CASE, D. H. PERSING, AND W. A. AGGER. 1995. Babesiosis in Wisconsin: A potentially fatal disease. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 53: 146-151.
16. HOLMAN, P. J., K. G. BENDELE, L. SCHOELKOPF, R. L. JONES-WITTHUHN, AND S. O. JONES. 2003. Ribosomal RNA analysis of Babesia odocoilei isolates from farmed reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) and elk (Cervus elaphus canadensis) in Wisconsin. Parasitology Research 91: 378-383.
17. -, A. M. SPENCER, R. E. DROLESKEY, H. K. GOETHERT, AND S. R. TELFORD III. 2005. In vitro cultivation of a zoonotic Babesia sp. isolated from eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 43: 3995-4001.
18. -, -, S. R. TELFORD III, H. K. GOETHERT, A. J. ALLEN, D. P. KNOWLES, AND W. L. GOFF. 2005. Comparative infectivity of Babesia divergens and a zoonotic Babesia divergens-like parasite in cattle. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 73: 865-870.
19. HOMER, M. J., I. AGUILAR-DELFIN, S. R. TELFORD III, P. J. KRAUSE, AND D. H. PERSING. 2000. Babesiosis. Clinical Microbiology Review 13: 451-469.
20. KEIRANS, J. E., AND T. R. LITWAK. 1989. Pictorial key to the adults of hard ticks, family Ixodidae (Ixodida: Ixodoidea), east of the Mississippi River. Journal of Medical Entomology 26: 435-448.
21. KJEMTRUP, A. M., J. THOMFORD, T. ROBINSON, AND P. A. CONRAD. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships of human and wildlife piroplasm isolates in the western United States inferred from the 18S nuclear small subunit RNA gene. Parasitology 120: 487-493.
22. KREIER, J. P., M. RISTIC, AND A. M. WATRACH. 1962. Theileria sp. in a deer in the United States. American Journal of Veterinary Research 23: 657-662.
23. MONCAYO, A. C., S. B. COHEN, C.M. FRITZEN, E. HUANG, M. J. YABSLEY, J. D. FREYE, B.G. DUNLAP, J. HUANG, D. G. MEAD, T. F. JONES et al. 2010. Absence of Rickettsia rickettsii and occurrence of other spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks from Tennessee. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 83: 653-657.
24. OLIVEIRA, M. R., AND J. P. KREIER. 1979. Transmission of Babesia microti using various species of ticks as vectors. Journal of Parasitology 65: 816-817.
25. ORLOSKI, K. A., E. B. HAYES, G. L. CAMPBELL, AND D. T. DENNIS. 2000. Surveillance for Lyme disease-United States, 1992-1998. MMWR CDC Surveillance Summary 49: 1-11.
26. PERRY, B. D., D. K. NICHOLS, AND E. S. CULLOM. 1985. Babesia odocoilei in white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus in Virginia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 21: 149-152.
27. THOMFORD, J., P. A. CONRAD, W. M. BOYCE, P. J. HOLMAN, AND D. A. JESSUP. 1993. Isolation and in vitro cultivation of babesial parasites from free-ranging desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in California. Journal of Parasitology 79: 77-84.
28. WALDRUP, K. A., A. A. KOCAN, T. QURESHI, D. S. DAVIS, D. BAGGETT, AND G. G. WAGNER. 1989. Serological prevalence and isolation of Babesia odocoilei among white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Texas and Oklahoma. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 25: 194-201.
29. YABSLEY, M. J., J. ROMINES, AND V. F. NETTLES. 2006. Detection of Babesia and Anaplasma species in rabbits from Texas and Georgia, USA. Vector-Borne Zoonotic Diseases 6: 7-13.