Human Babesiosis, Maine, USA, 1995–2011

Etymologia: Babesia [bə-be′ ze-ə]

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Babesiosis Surveillance, New Jersey, USA, 2006–2011

Performance of Skart: A Skewness- and Autoregression-Adjusted Batch Means Procedure for Simulation Analysis

Performance of Skart: A Skewnessand Autoregression-Adjusted Batch-Means Procedure for Simulation Analysis Ali Tafazzoli, James R. Wilson Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7906, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7906, USA, {[email protected], [email protected]} Emily K. Lada SAS Institute, 100 SAS Campus Drive, Cary, North Car...

Monitoring Human Babesiosis Emergence through Vector Surveillance New England, USA

Human babesiosis is an emerging tick-borne disease caused by the intraerythrocytic protozoan Babesia microti. Its geographic distribution is more limited than that of Lyme disease, despite sharing the same tick vector and reservoir hosts. The geographic range of babesiosis is expanding, but knowledge of its range is incomplete and relies exclusively on reports of human cases. We evaluated the u...

Babesiosis in Lower Hudson Valley, New York, USA

Although Lyme disease has been endemic to parts of the Lower Hudson Valley of New York, United States, for >2 decades, babesiosis has emerged there only since 2001. The number of Lower Hudson Valley residents in whom babesiosis was diagnosed increased 20-fold, from 6 to 119 cases per year during 2001-2008, compared with an ≈1.6-fold increase for the rest of New York. During 2002-2009, a total o...