Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2024)

Autochthonous Human Babesia divergens Infection, England

  • Guillermo A. Zabala,
  • Robert Lever,
  • Xin Hui Chan,
  • Henrietta Bristowe,
  • Emer Kilbride,
  • David Richards,
  • Mark Daly,
  • Michael Brown,
  • Nick Johnson,
  • Laura Eve Nabarro,
  • Hanif Esmail,
  • Gauri Godbole,
  • Peter L. Chiodini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3010.240866
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 10
pp. 2165 – 2168

Abstract

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We describe a case of autochthonous human Babesia divergens infection in an immunocompetent woman in England. The patient had fever, hemolysis, multiorgan failure, and 18% parasitemia. We confirmed B. divergens by 18S rDNA PCR and sequencing. Clinicians should consider babesiosis as a differential diagnosis in patients with unexplained hemolysis.

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