Babesiosis: under-reporting or case-clustering?
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Babesiosis: under-reporting or case-clustering?
Babesiosis is a tick-borne protozoan disease which principally affects animals but occasionally affects humans. Cases have been reported from many parts of Europe with no evidence of case-clustering. We report the second case of babesiosis from a small area in the west of Ireland.
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1Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 2Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA 3Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, New Haven, CT, USA 44Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA ⇤Direct correspondence to katherine.atk...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.65.766.591