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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 1999, p. 2051-2052, Vol. 37, No. 6
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Southern Extension of the Range of Human Babesiosis
in the Eastern United States
Eugene S.
Eskow,1
Peter J.
Krause,2,*
Andrew
Spielman,3
Kathy
Freeman,2 and
Jaber
Aslanzadeh2
403 Highway 202, Flemington, New
Jersey,1 The University of Connecticut,
Farmington, Connecticut,2 and the Harvard
School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts3
Received 19 January 1999/Returned for modification 2 February
1999/Accepted 1 March 1999
We sought evidence of babesiosis in three residents of New Jersey
who were suspected of local acquisition of Babesia microti infection. We tested serial blood samples from these residents for
B. microti antibodies and amplifiable DNA by using
immunofluorescent antibody and PCR techniques. All three residents
experienced symptoms suggestive of acute babesiosis. The sera of each
of the patients reacted against babesial antigen at a titer fourfold or
higher in sequentially collected blood samples. PCR-amplifiable DNA, characteristic of B. microti, was detected in their blood.
These data suggest that human B. microti infections were
acquired recently in New Jersey, extending the range of this
piroplasmosis in the northeastern United States.
*
Corresponding author. Present address: Connecticut
Children's Medical Center, 282 Washington St., Hartford, CT 06106. Phone: (860) 545-9490. Fax: (860) 545-9371. E-mail:
PKRAUSE{at}CCMCKIDS.org.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 1999, p. 2051-2052, Vol. 37, No. 6
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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