Severe babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens in a host with intact spleen, Russia, 2018.

Authors :: Kukina IV
Zelya OP
Guzeeva TM
Karan LS
Perkovskaya IA
Tymoshenko NI
Guzeeva MV
Source :: Ticks and tick-borne diseases [Ticks Tick Borne Dis] 2019 Oct; Vol. 10 (6), pp. 101262. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jul 16.
Publication Year :: 2019
Abstract: We report a case of severe babesiosis caused by the bovine pathogen Babesia divergens with the development of multisystem failure in a splenic host. Immunosuppression other than splenectomy can also predispose people to B. divergens. There was heavy multiple invasion of up to 14 parasites inside the erythrocyte, which had not been previously observed even in asplenic hosts. The piroplasm 18S rRNA sequence from our patient was identical B. divergens EU lineage with identity 99.5-100%.<br /> (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.)

Subjects :: Aged
Babesia classification
Babesiosis physiopathology
Erythrocytes parasitology
Fatal Outcome
Female
Humans
Moscow
RNA, Protozoan analysis
RNA, Ribosomal, 18S analysis
Babesia isolation & purification
Babesiosis diagnosis
Spleen parasitology

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