Fatal human babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens in an asplenic host

We report a fatal case of human babesiosis caused by bovine pathogen Babesia divergens in Russia. Falciparum malaria was falsely diagnosed due to the presence of small ring forms in the blood smear. Laboratory diagnosis can distinguish between babesiosis and malaria according to the examination of s...

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Autores principales: Kukina, Irina V., Guzeeva, Tatiana M., Zelya, Olga P., Ganushkina, Ludmila A.
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Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30073148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00414
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author Kukina, Irina V.
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description We report a fatal case of human babesiosis caused by bovine pathogen Babesia divergens in Russia. Falciparum malaria was falsely diagnosed due to the presence of small ring forms in the blood smear. Laboratory diagnosis can distinguish between babesiosis and malaria according to the examination of stained blood smears.
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spelling pubmed-60706742018-08-02 Fatal human babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens in an asplenic host Kukina, Irina V. Guzeeva, Tatiana M. Zelya, Olga P. Ganushkina, Ludmila A. IDCases Article We report a fatal case of human babesiosis caused by bovine pathogen Babesia divergens in Russia. Falciparum malaria was falsely diagnosed due to the presence of small ring forms in the blood smear. Laboratory diagnosis can distinguish between babesiosis and malaria according to the examination of stained blood smears. Elsevier 2018-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6070674/ /pubmed/30073148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00414 Text en © 2018 I M Sechenov First Moscow University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russian Federation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_fullStr Fatal human babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens in an asplenic host
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title_short Fatal human babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens in an asplenic host
title_sort fatal human babesiosis caused by babesia divergens in an asplenic host
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30073148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00414
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