Babesia microti: an unusual travel-related disease

BACKGROUND: Human babesiosis is a rare tick-borne infectious disease. The clinical presentation ranges from an asymptomatic form to a life threatening infection with severe hemolysis. Human babesiosis due to Babesia microti is the most common and is endemic in North America. CASE PRESENTATION: We re...

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Autores principales: Poisnel, Elodie, Ebbo, Mikael, Berda-Haddad, Yael, Faucher, Benoit, Bernit, Emmanuelle, Carcy, Bernard, Piarroux, Renaud, Harlé, Jean-Robert, Schleinitz, Nicolas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23432953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-99
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author Poisnel, Elodie
Ebbo, Mikael
Berda-Haddad, Yael
Faucher, Benoit
Bernit, Emmanuelle
Carcy, Bernard
Piarroux, Renaud
Harlé, Jean-Robert
Schleinitz, Nicolas
author_facet Poisnel, Elodie
Ebbo, Mikael
Berda-Haddad, Yael
Faucher, Benoit
Bernit, Emmanuelle
Carcy, Bernard
Piarroux, Renaud
Harlé, Jean-Robert
Schleinitz, Nicolas
author_sort Poisnel, Elodie
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description BACKGROUND: Human babesiosis is a rare tick-borne infectious disease. The clinical presentation ranges from an asymptomatic form to a life threatening infection with severe hemolysis. Human babesiosis due to Babesia microti is the most common and is endemic in North America. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a European patient with severe pancytopenia and reactive hemophagocytosis related to a Babesia microti infection. Babesia infection was acquired during a travel in the USA. CONCLUSION: Babesiosis should be considered in patients who traveled in endemic areas, especially North America for the most common agent Babesia microti.
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spelling pubmed-35982492013-03-16 Babesia microti: an unusual travel-related disease Poisnel, Elodie Ebbo, Mikael Berda-Haddad, Yael Faucher, Benoit Bernit, Emmanuelle Carcy, Bernard Piarroux, Renaud Harlé, Jean-Robert Schleinitz, Nicolas BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Human babesiosis is a rare tick-borne infectious disease. The clinical presentation ranges from an asymptomatic form to a life threatening infection with severe hemolysis. Human babesiosis due to Babesia microti is the most common and is endemic in North America. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a European patient with severe pancytopenia and reactive hemophagocytosis related to a Babesia microti infection. Babesia infection was acquired during a travel in the USA. CONCLUSION: Babesiosis should be considered in patients who traveled in endemic areas, especially North America for the most common agent Babesia microti. BioMed Central 2013-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3598249/ /pubmed/23432953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-99 Text en Copyright ©2013 Poisnel et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bernit, Emmanuelle
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Piarroux, Renaud
Harlé, Jean-Robert
Schleinitz, Nicolas
Babesia microti: an unusual travel-related disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23432953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-99
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