Human babesiosis, Maine, USA, 1995–2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1727-1730

  Smith, Robert P ^a   Elias, Susan P ^a   Borelli, Timothy J ^b   Missaghi, Bayan ^c,d   York, Brian J ^e   Kessler, Robert A ^f   Lubelczyk, Charles B ^a   Lacombe, Eleanor H ^a   Hayes, Catherine M ^g   Coulter, Michael S ^h   Rand, Peter W ^a  

^a Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^b Maine General Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

^e Kadlec Regional Medical Center   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; RNA 18S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA MICROTI; BLOOD DONOR; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA ODOCOILEI; DEER; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIROPLASMOSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BABESIOSIS; IXODES; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; HUMANS; IXODES; MAINE; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907292670     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2010.130938     Document Type: Article

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