A Walk in the Park: A Case of Babesiosis in the South Bronx

Babesiosis, mainly endemic within the Northeastern and upper Midwestern regions of the United States, is a zoonotic disease that invades and lyses red blood cells, which can result in hemolytic anemia. Its decreased incidence in comparison to Lyme disease is often attributed to the greater asymptoma...

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Autores principales: Hajicharalambous, Christina, Rattu, Mohammad, Leuchten, Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849265
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.8.35924
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Leuchten, Scott
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description Babesiosis, mainly endemic within the Northeastern and upper Midwestern regions of the United States, is a zoonotic disease that invades and lyses red blood cells, which can result in hemolytic anemia. Its decreased incidence in comparison to Lyme disease is often attributed to the greater asymptomatic infection proportion and insufficient physician awareness or suspicion of this disease. Here we describe a case of undifferentiated febrile illness with hemolytic anemia that yielded the diagnosis of babesiosis.
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spelling pubmed-59651432018-05-30 A Walk in the Park: A Case of Babesiosis in the South Bronx Hajicharalambous, Christina Rattu, Mohammad Leuchten, Scott Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report Babesiosis, mainly endemic within the Northeastern and upper Midwestern regions of the United States, is a zoonotic disease that invades and lyses red blood cells, which can result in hemolytic anemia. Its decreased incidence in comparison to Lyme disease is often attributed to the greater asymptomatic infection proportion and insufficient physician awareness or suspicion of this disease. Here we describe a case of undifferentiated febrile illness with hemolytic anemia that yielded the diagnosis of babesiosis. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5965143/ /pubmed/29849265 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.8.35924 Text en © 2018 Hajicharalambous et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849265
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