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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 24, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWe report a case of babesiosis, caused by Babesia microti, in a missionary who worked in Equatorial Guinea but also visited rural Spain. The initial diagnosis, based on clinical features and microscopy, was malaria. The...
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From:Consultant (Vol. 41, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedA 46-year-old man presents to the emergency department with high fever (temperature, 38.9[degrees]C [102[degrees]]F); chills; generalized weakness; myalgia; arthralgia; and diffuse, dull headache of 3 days' duration....
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 32, Issue 19)NEW YORK -- Treatment of the patient with a history of a tick bite and presumed Lyme disease is now complicated by the increasing likelihood that the tick was coinfected with other pathogens. Of particular concern is...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 55, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn the United States there are 12 species of ticks which can be vectors of disease syndromes that affect humans, livestock and wildlife. Harmful features of a tick infestation can include local irritation, blood loss,...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 20, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedWe observed an increase in the ratio of pathogenic Babesia microti to B. odocoilei in adult Ixodes scapularis ticks in Maine. Risk for babesiosis was associated with adult tick abundance, Borrelia burgdorferi infection...
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From:Journal of Parasitology ResearchPeer-ReviewedThis study aimed to assess the prevalence of Babesia ovis infection in adult Rhipicephalus bursa and small ruminants in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. Blood samples were collected from 280 sheep and 122 goats of forty...
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From:BioMed Research InternationalPeer-ReviewedBabesiosis is caused by intraerythrocytic protozoan parasites transmitted by ticks and affects a wide range of domestic and wild animals and occasionally humans. The current study aimed to investigate the effect of B....
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHuman babesiosis in Europe is caused by multiple zoonotic species. We describe a case in a splenectomized patient, in which a routine Babesia divergens PCR result was negative. A universal Babesia spp. PCR yielded a...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBabesia bovis establishes persistent infections of long duration in cattle, despite the development of effective anti-disease immunity. One mechanism used by the parasite to achieve persistence is rapid antigenic...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1297)[S] A 37-year-old woman, who was a renal transplant recipient, developed babesiosis during treatment with tacrolimus and prednisone. The woman, who had developed chronic transplant rejection, was receiving...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedWe describe cervids as potential reservoir hosts of Babesia EU1 and B. divergens. Both babesial parasites were found in roe deer. Sequence analysis of 18S rRNA showed 99.7% identity of roe deer Babesia EU1 with the...
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From:American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable AgriculturePeer-ReviewedDuring the year 2009, a study was conducted to identify ticks that infest digs in two different regions of the wilaya of El-Tarf (Algeria). A total of 120 dogs were examined between march and august 2009. 856 ticks were...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 20, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Babesiosis, which is caused by intraerythrocytic sporozoites of the genus Babesia, is a tick-borne emerging zoonosis in humans. Although >100 Babesia species infect animals, only a few species, mainly B....
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 13, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Ixodes scapularis, the black-legged tick, is the predominant vector of reportable human vectorborne disease in the United States. It transmits agents that cause Lyme borreliosis, human anaplasmosis, and...
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From:Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA 79-year-old man from western Wisconsin presented to an outside emergency department in July with a 4-day history of fever and malaise. He denied chest pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, cough, constipation,...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 58, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEquine babesiosis is caused by the blood parasites Babesia caballi or B. (Theileria) equi, both of which are transmitted by ticks. U.S. veterinarians currently use the drug imidocarb dipropionate to treat diseases like...
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From:Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine (Vol. 20, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedByline: Pramod. Guru, John. O'Horo, Heidi. Lehrke, Jeffrey. Winters, John. Wilson Babesiosis is a zoonotic disease transmitted by Ixodes ticks seen in the United States and parts of Europe. Because of the typically...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe report 2 cases of babesiosis in immunocompetent patients in France. A severe influenza-like disease developed in both patients 2 weeks after they had been bitten by ticks. Diagnosis was obtained from blood smears,...
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From:Veterinary World (Vol. 10, Issue 10)Aim: The present research work was undertaken to describe various clinical signs and hematobiochemical alterations in dogs affected with Babesia gibsoni. Materials and Methods: Blood smears from a total of 79...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn 2018, Babesia microti infection was diagnosed for a 37-year-old man in Singapore who acquired the infection in the United States. This case highlights the recent rise of tickborne infections in the United States and...