By Linda on Nov 24, 2009 in Infections | comments(0)
Lyme Disease is transmitted by an arthropod, the Ixodes dammini tick. The spirochete causing the disease is the Borrelia burgdorferi.
Over the past nine years, we have treated over three hundred children for Lyme Disease in the hospital because they had significant neurologic manifestations of Lyme Disease or, in the minority of cases, an arthritis necessitating hospitalization for intravenous antibiotics. Continued
By Linda on Nov 16, 2009 in Infections | comments(0)
A fatal case of transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in the State of Delaware
Yong Zhao, Kenneth R. Love, Scott W. Hall, and Frank V. Beardell
Background: Most cases of human babesiosis in North America are caused
by Babesia microti, which is endemic in the northeastern and upper
midwestern United States. Although the disease is usually transmitted by
a tick bite, there has been an increase in the number of
transfusion-transmitted cases reported. We describe a fatal case of
transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in a nonendemic state, Delaware. Continued
