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Fatal Babesiosis in Man, Finland, 2004

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Journal Emerg Infect Dis
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2010 Jul 1
PMID 20587183
Citations 26
Authors
Karita Haapasalo
Pekka Suomalainen
Antti Sukura
Heli Siikamaki
T Sakari Jokiranta
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Abstract

We report an unusual case of human babesiosis in Finland in a 53-year-old man with no history of splenectomy. He had a rudimentary spleen, coexisting Lyme borreliosis, exceptional dark streaks on his extremities, and subsequent disseminated aspergillosis. He was infected with Babesia divergens, which usually causes bovine babesiosis in Finland.

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