| human babesiosis on nantucket island. clinical features. | between 20 july and 15 octoboer 1975, five cases of human infection with babesia microti were diagnosed on nantucket island, massachusetts. the illness was characterized by fever, drenching sweats, shaking chills, myalgia, arthralgia, extreme fatigue, and a mild-to-moderate hemolytic anemia. none of the patients had a history of splenetomy. although all patients responded symptomatically to treatment with oral chloroquine phosphate, parasitemia and fatigue frequently persisted for several weeks ... | 1977 | 556920 |
| short-tailed shrews as reservoirs of the agents of lyme disease and human babesiosis. | to determine whether short-tailed shrews (blarina brevicauda) serve as reservoir hosts for the lyme disease spirochete (borrelia burgdorferi) and the agent of human babesiosis (babesia microti), we examined nymphal ticks that had fed as larvae on shrews collected from 3 enzootic sites in coastal massachusetts for evidence of infection by either or both of these agents. xenodiagnosis indicated that 11 of 14 shrews were infected by b. burgdorferi. one of 3 piroplasm-infected shrews also infected t ... | 1990 | 2213411 |
| epidemiology of human babesiosis on nantucket island. | between 1969 and 1977, 14 persons with parasitologically confirmed babesia microti infections and seven persons with antibody titers to b. microti greater than or equal to 1:1,024 were identified on nantucket island, massachusetts. nineteen of these 21 persons were interviewed. about half were permanent residents of nantucket; the others spent most of their summers on the island. there were 12 women and seven men. patients ranged in age from 23 to 86 years; all of those with parasitologically co ... | 1981 | 7283012 |