A longitudinal study of Babesia microti infection in seropositive blood donors

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2217-2225

  Leiby, David A ^a   Johnson, Stephanie T ^a,b   Won, Kimberly Y ^c   Nace, Eva K ^c   Slemenda, Susan B ^c   Pieniazek, Norman J ^c   Cable, Ritchard G ^b   Herwaldt, Barbara L ^c  

^a HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA MICROTI INFECTION; BLOOD DONOR; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PIROPLASMOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; AGED; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA;

EID: 84908221672     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12622     Document Type: Article

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