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Case Reports
. 2014 Apr;20(4):724-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid2004.131409.

Severe babesiosis in immunocompetent man, Spain, 2011

Luis M Gonzalez, Susana Rojo, Fernando Gonzalez-Camacho, Daniel Luque, Cheryl A Lobo, Estrella Montero
Case Reports

Severe babesiosis in immunocompetent man, Spain, 2011

Luis M Gonzalez et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: Babesia divergens; Ixodes; human babesiosis; immunocompetent; parasite; protozoan; tick-borne; treatment failure; vector; vector-borne infections; zoonoses.

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Photomicrography of a Giemsa-stained thin film of a 46-year-old man showing Babesia divergens. Double pear-shaped intraerythrocytic parasites are indicated by arrows. Slides were examined with a Nikon microscope at 60× magnification. Scale bar indicates 500 nm.
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