Possible transfusion-transmitted Babesia divergens–like/MO-1 infection in an Arkansas patient

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1622-1625

  Burgess, Mary J ^a   Rosenbaum, Eric R ^a   Pritt, Bobbi S ^d   Haselow, Dirk T ^c   Ferren, Katie M ^a   Alzghoul, Bashar N ^b   Rico, Juan Carlos ^a   Sloan, Lynne M ^d   Ramanan, Poornima ^d   Purushothaman, Raghunandan ^b   Bradsher, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia divergens like; Babesiosis; Transfusion transmitted infection

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CLINDAMYCIN; D DIMER; DOXYCYCLINE; FIBRINOGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; QUININE;

ADD ON THERAPY; AGED; ARKANSAS; ARTICLE; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA MICROTI; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; DISORIENTATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EHRLICHIOSIS; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PIROPLASMOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VERY ELDERLY; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BABESIA; FATALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARKANSAS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; QUININE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027330582     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix216     Document Type: Article

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