Increasing Babesiosis in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 2008–2017

Tick-borne illnesses are increasing but are often underreported. Few cases of babesiosis have been reported from Pennsylvania. Our 4-hospital system in southeastern Pennsylvania saw a rise in cases from 7 or fewer yearly in 2008–2014 to 26 cases in 2015. There appear to be multiple potential causes...

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Autores principales: Liu, Hans H, Cushinotto, Lisa, Giger, Olarae, Daum, Gary, McBride, Patricia, Negron, Elizabeth A, Vandegrift, Kurt, Kapelusznik, Luciano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30895205
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz066
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author Liu, Hans H
Cushinotto, Lisa
Giger, Olarae
Daum, Gary
McBride, Patricia
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description Tick-borne illnesses are increasing but are often underreported. Few cases of babesiosis have been reported from Pennsylvania. Our 4-hospital system in southeastern Pennsylvania saw a rise in cases from 7 or fewer yearly in 2008–2014 to 26 cases in 2015. There appear to be multiple potential causes of this increase in frequency.
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spelling pubmed-64199872019-03-20 Increasing Babesiosis in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 2008–2017 Liu, Hans H Cushinotto, Lisa Giger, Olarae Daum, Gary McBride, Patricia Negron, Elizabeth A Vandegrift, Kurt Kapelusznik, Luciano Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Tick-borne illnesses are increasing but are often underreported. Few cases of babesiosis have been reported from Pennsylvania. Our 4-hospital system in southeastern Pennsylvania saw a rise in cases from 7 or fewer yearly in 2008–2014 to 26 cases in 2015. There appear to be multiple potential causes of this increase in frequency. Oxford University Press 2019-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6419987/ /pubmed/30895205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz066 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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