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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17e
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Babesiosis: Introduction
Topics Discussed: babesiosis.
Excerpt:
"Babesiosis is an emerging infection transmitted by ticks and
caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa of the genus Babesia. Wild and domestic animals
are natural reservoirs of Babesia species.
Only in the past 50 years has Babesia been
appreciated to be a pathogen in humans. Usually a mild flulike illness
in young and healthy people, babesiosis may develop into a life-threatening
malaria-like syndrome in asplenic, immunocompromised, or elderly
patients...."
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