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Severe Babesiosis With Heavy Parasitemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated Successfully With Red Cell Exchange Transfusion

Babesiosis is a zoonotic disease caused by a protozoa Babesia. It is transmitted through a tick vector and affects red blood cells. The clinical manifestation of Babesiosis varies and can range from asymptomatic infection to fatal multi-organ failure and death. The severity of infection varies with...

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Autores principales: Sanivarapu, Raghavendra R, Kashyap, Vaishali, Iqbal, Javed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9018455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35475076
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23344