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

Burgess, Mary J; Rosenbaum, Eric R; Pritt, Bobbi S; Haselow, Dirk T; Ferren, Katie M; Alzghoul, Bashar N; Rico, Juan Carlos; Sloan, Lynne M et al. · Clin Infect Dis · 2017

case_report · Level V

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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.

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