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Article: Babesiosis in Fairfield County, Connecticut.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
- Author:
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To the Editor: Human babesiosis, caused by Babesia microti, was initially described in the eastern United States in 1970 in a woman vacationing on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts (1). With few exceptions, almost all subsequent cases were recorded from islands in the northeastern United States and Cape Cod, Massachusetts (2), until this illness was diagnosed in 13 patients living in New London County in south-eastern Connecticut (3,4). B. microti was isolated from white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus, captured from 1988 to 1990 in the yards of patients. Babesiosis also was diagnosed in persons living in Wisconsin (5) and in New Jersey (6) who acquired the organism ...