| Literature DB >> 20587183 |
Karita Haapasalo1, Pekka Suomalainen, Antti Sukura, Heli Siikamaki, T Sakari Jokiranta.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20587183 PMCID: PMC3321911 DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.091905
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Emerg Infect Dis ISSN: 1080-6040 Impact factor: 6.883
Figure 1Lesions of the patient infected with Babesia divergens 1 day after hospitalization, Finland, 2004. A) Left thigh showing a classical erythema chronicum migrans lesion; B) left leg and C) right arm showing dark purple streaks.
Figure 2Giemsa-stained smears of peripheral blood of the patient infected with Babesia divergens, Finland, 2004. Intraerythrocytic parasites are indicated by arrows (A), and a representative Maltese cross form of the parasite is indicated by an arrowhead (B). (Original magnification ×750.)
Figure A1Municipality in Finland where human babesiosis infection (index case) was acquired and 3 bovine babesiosis cases were found in 2004. Average annual number of cases of babesiosis in cattle during 1997–2003 is indicated.
Incidence of cattle babesiosis, Finland*
| District | Year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 1975 | 2000 | 2002 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
| Southern | – | – | 21 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 11 |
| Eastern† | – | – | 39 | 31 | 27 | 28 | 18 |
| Oulu | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lapland | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ahvenanmaa | – | – | 18 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 0 |
| Western | – | – | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Total | 4,796 | 2,524 | 79 | 51 | 74 | 42 | 312 |
*–, no district data were available. †Region where the index case-patient lived.