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Case Reports
. 2017 Jun 1;64(11):1622-1625.
doi: 10.1093/cid/cix216.

Possible Transfusion-Transmitted Babesia divergens-like/MO-1 Infection in an Arkansas Patient

Mary J Burgess  1 , Eric R Rosenbaum  2 , Bobbi S Pritt  3 , Dirk T Haselow  4 , Katie M Ferren  1 , Bashar N Alzghoul  5 , Juan Carlos Rico  1 , Lynne M Sloan  3 , Poornima Ramanan  3 , Raghunandan Purushothaman  5 , Robert W Bradsher  1
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Possible Transfusion-Transmitted Babesia divergens-like/MO-1 Infection in an Arkansas Patient

Mary J Burgess et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

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  • Erratum.
    [No authors listed] [No authors listed] Clin Infect Dis. 2017 Oct 15;65(8):1431-1433. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix563. Clin Infect Dis. 2017. PMID: 29017252 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

A patient with asplenia and multiple red blood cell transfusions acquired babesiosis infection with Babesia divergens-like/MO-1 organisms and not Babesia microti, the common United States species. He had no known tick exposure. This is believed to be the first transfusion-transmitted case and the fifth documented case of B. divergens-like/MO-1 infection.

Keywords: Babesia divergens–like; babesiosis; transfusion-transmitted infection..

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