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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
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author Sanivarapu, Raghavendra R
Kashyap, Vaishali
Iqbal, Javed
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description 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 different Babesia species and also the immunity of the host. The management of Babesiosis depends on the severity of infection and the burden of parasitemia. Here we present a case of severe Babesiosis in an immunocompetent patient with heavy parasitemia requiring red blood cell exchange transfusion (ET).
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spelling pubmed-90184552022-04-25 Severe Babesiosis With Heavy Parasitemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated Successfully With Red Cell Exchange Transfusion Sanivarapu, Raghavendra R Kashyap, Vaishali Iqbal, Javed Cureus Internal Medicine 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 different Babesia species and also the immunity of the host. The management of Babesiosis depends on the severity of infection and the burden of parasitemia. Here we present a case of severe Babesiosis in an immunocompetent patient with heavy parasitemia requiring red blood cell exchange transfusion (ET). Cureus 2022-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9018455/ /pubmed/35475076 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23344 Text en Copyright © 2022, Sanivarapu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Sanivarapu, Raghavendra R
Kashyap, Vaishali
Iqbal, Javed
Severe Babesiosis With Heavy Parasitemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated Successfully With Red Cell Exchange Transfusion
title Severe Babesiosis With Heavy Parasitemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated Successfully With Red Cell Exchange Transfusion
title_full Severe Babesiosis With Heavy Parasitemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated Successfully With Red Cell Exchange Transfusion
title_fullStr Severe Babesiosis With Heavy Parasitemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated Successfully With Red Cell Exchange Transfusion
title_full_unstemmed Severe Babesiosis With Heavy Parasitemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated Successfully With Red Cell Exchange Transfusion
title_short Severe Babesiosis With Heavy Parasitemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated Successfully With Red Cell Exchange Transfusion
title_sort severe babesiosis with heavy parasitemia in an immunocompetent patient treated successfully with red cell exchange transfusion
topic Internal Medicine
url 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
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