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| Links: Piroplasma & other "ringforms" |
| Human babesial infections in Europe |
Brasseur P, Gorenflot A. Rocz Akad Med Bialymst. 1996;41(1):117-22.
The tick transmission of Babesia from infected animals to human has been clearly demonstrated. Including the first case described by Skaraballo in 1957 in Yugoslavia, 22 cases of human babesiosis have been reported in Europe. B. divergens, which is the most common pathogen for cattle, was involved in 17/22 cases.
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| Human babesiosis in New York State: Review of 139 hospitalized cases ... |
Human babesiosis in New York State: Review of 139 hospitalized cases and analysis of prognostic factors.
White DJ et al. Arch Intern Med. 1998 Oct 26;158(19):2149-54.
Past medical records showed that 52% of patients had a history of chronic disease; 12% had a history of Lyme disease; 12% had undergone a splenectomy; and 2% had undergone a blood transfusion. |
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| Human babesiosis |
| Pruthi RK et al. Mayo Clin Proc. 1995 Sep;70(9):853-62. "We describe a 62-year-old man with babesiosis, outline his clinical course and response to therapy, and discuss the use of the polymerase chain reaction for the diagnosis and monitoring of the infection. .. The onset of the disease was insidious, with fatigue, fever, weight loss, intermittently discolored urine, and anemia. Computed tomography of the abdomen revealed a small, shrunken spleen with an irregular border. With treatment, the symptoms gradually resolved. Although peripheral blood smears were negative soon after therapy, Babesia microti DNA was detected by polymerase chain reaction 53 days after initial examination. |
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| Human infections with babesia |
Shortt HE. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 1975;69(5-6):519-21.
Describes first 5 cases of human babesiosis: Yugoslavia (1957), California (1966), Ireland (1967) (all 3 splenctomized); Nantucket Island (1970), Nantucket Island (1973) (both non-splenectomized) ..mentions also Shortt and Blackie (1965) finding of Babesia in Brittain moles, rats was transmissible to a monkey resulting in persistent parasitaemia for months. |
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| Immunoserologic evidence of coinfection .. Bb, Babesia & HGE ... |
Immunoserologic evidence of coinfection with Borrelia burgdorferi, Babesia microti, and human granulocytic Ehrlichia species in residents of Wisconsin and Minnesota
Mitchell PD, Reed KD, Hofkes JM. J Clin Microbiol 1996 Mar; 34(3): 724-7
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| Infection with a babesia-like organism in northern California |
Persing DH et al. N Engl J Med. 1995 Feb 2;332(5):298-303.
Recently, infection with an unusual babesia-like piroplasm (designated WA1) was described in a patient from Washington State. We studied four patients in California who were identified as being infected with a similar protozoal parasite. All four patients had undergone splenectomy, three because of trauma and one because of Hodgkin's disease. Two of the patients had complicated courses, and one died.
"Serum from three of the patients was reactive to WA1 but not to B. microti antigen." PDF |
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