Delayed onset adult respiratory distress syndrome in babesiosis.
Reported herein is a second case of a patient who developed adult respiratory distress syndrome secondary to babesiosis. The features of acute lung injury after babesiosis will be described.
Horowitz
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Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY.
Coletta
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Fein
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D000368:Aged; D001404:Babesiosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D002981:Clindamycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D011803:Quinine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011859:Radiography; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors
D002981:Clindamycin; D011803:Quinine