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Article: Consider Babesiosis in transfused infants with liver problems.
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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PHILADELPHIA -- A single split unit of infected blood was the source of Babesia microti infections in four very-low-birthweight babies in Rhode Island, Dr. Kari Simonsen reported at the annual meeting of the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research.
The first case was seen in an acutely ill 35-day-old infant born at 25 weeks' gestation. The other three cases were identified after a search for other recipients of the suspect blood. None of these infants was seriously ill. Unlike the index case, who had a parasitemia level of 17%, the other three infants had low levels of parasitemia, said Dr. Simonsen, a pediatric infectious disease fellow at Brown University, ...