A Cluster of Transfusion-Associated Babesiosis Cases Traced to a Single Asymptomatic Donor

CONTEXT The risk of acquiring babesiosis by blood transfusion is largely unknown since in areas where it is endemic it is often an asymptomatic infection. OBJECTIVE To investigate and treat a cluster of blood transfusion–associated babesiosis cases. DESIGN Case series and epidemiologic investigation...

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Veröffentlicht in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1999-03, Vol.281 (10), p.927-930
Hauptverfasser:	Dobroszycki, Joanna, Herwaldt, Barbara L, Boctor, Fouad, Miller, James R, Linden, Jeanne, Eberhard, Mark L, Yoon, Jing Ja, Ali, Nahed M, Tanowitz, Herbert B, Graham, Fitzroy, Weiss, Louis M, Wittner, Murray
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Animals Babesia - isolation & purification Babesia microti Babesiosis - diagnosis Babesiosis - epidemiology Babesiosis - transmission Biological and medical sciences Blood Donors Blood transfusions Blood. Blood and plasma substitutes. Blood products. Blood cells. Blood typing. Plasmapheresis. Apheresis Child Cluster Analysis Contact Tracing Disease Humans Infant, Newborn Medical sciences Parasitemia - diagnosis Parasitemia - transmission Transfusion Reaction Transfusions. Complications. Transfusion reactions. Cell and gene therapy
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