Atraumatic splenic rupture from Babesia: A disease of the otherwise healthy patient

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 649-652

  Farber, F R ^a,c   Muehlenbachs, A ^b   Robey, T E ^a,d  

^a Waterbury Hospital   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia; Case report; Parasitemia; Splenic rupture

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

ANIMAL; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; HEMATOMA; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES;

ANIMALS; AZITHROMYCIN; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; DOXYCYCLINE; HEMATOMA; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 84937729928     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2015.05.010     Document Type: Article

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