A subtropical case of human babesiosis.
This report constitutes the first well-documented case of symptomatic human babesiosis from a subtropical site, south of the 40th parallel. This paper describes the definitive identification of Babesia divergens infection in a splenectomized patient from the Canary Islands.
Olmeda
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AS
Departamento de Patología Animal I, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Armstrong
P M
PM
Rosenthal
B M
BM
Valladares
B
B
del Castillo
A
A
de Armas
F
F
Miguelez
M
M
González
A
A
Rodríguez Rodríguez
J A
JA
Spielman
A
A
Telford
S R
SR
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001266:Atlantic Islands; D001403:Babesia / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001404:Babesiosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013156:Splenectomy; D014329:Tropical Climate
D004275:DNA, Ribosomal