Ever since the discovery of parasitic inclusions in erythrocytes of cattle in Romania by Victor
Babes at the end of the 19th century, newly recognised babesial pathogens continue to …

Human babesiosis is an important emerging tick-borne disease. Babesia divergens, a
parasite of cattle, has been implicated as the most common agent of human babesiosis in …

Background: Babesiosis is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by intraerythrocytic
parasites, which usually are tickborne but also are transmissible by transfusion. Tickborne …

Background Babesiosis, a zoonosis caused by the protozoan Babesia microti, is usually not
treated when the symptoms are mild, because the parasitemia appears to be transient …

Babesia spp. are intraerythrocytic protozoan parasites of animals and humans that cause
babesiosis, a zoonotic disease transmitted primarily by tick vectors. Although a variety of …

An update on the 2005 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM)
Consensus Statement on blood donor infectious disease screening was presented at the …

We provide a comprehensive review of risks associated with allogeneic red blood cell and
platelet transfusions in Canada. The review focuses on clinically symptomatic noninfectious …

After reviewing the relative frequency of the causes of allogeneic blood transfusion-related
mortality in the United States today, we present 6 possible strategies for further reducing …

Human infection due to Babesia microti has been regarded as infrequent and a condition
primarily affecting the elderly or immunocompromised. To determine whether risk in …

Human babesiosis is a zoonotic disease caused by protozoan parasites of the Babesia
genus, primarily in the Northeastern and Midwest USA due to Babesia microti and Western …