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Blood transfusion transmitted Babesia

By on Apr 8, 2011 in Infections | comments(0)

Linda’s comments:  What is it going to take to make our Dept. of Health do something about this problem.  Transplant patients are also becoming infected with Lyme and company, because of the lack of education with this growing problem….

Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=21233506&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

Summary: Babesia spp. are intraerythrocytic protozoan parasites of animals
and humans that cause babesiosis, a zoonotic disease transmitted primarily
by tick vectors. 

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