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TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 730-734Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.02.018
Keywords
Babesia divergens; Fatal case; Human babesiosis; Treatment failure
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- Surveillance Program of the Centro Nacional de Microbiologia
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain [AGL2014-56193-R(/GN2)]
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We describe a fatal case caused by the intra-erythrocytic Babesia divergens parasite in an elderly woman. This is the third case of fatal babesiosis reported in the last 15 years in Europe, and the only one in a patient with an intact spleen.
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