Fida Madiha, Challener Douglas, Hamdi Ahmed, O'horo John, Abu Saleh Omar
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Jul 1;6(7). doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz311.
Babesiosis is an emerging health risk, and clinicians need to be aware of its different clinical manifestations. In our cohort of 38 patients, almost half did not recall a tick bite, and diagnosis was delayed due to the nonspecific nature of symptoms. Sixty-eight percent of patients required hospitalization, with 21% requiring intensive care unit stay. Coinfection with Lyme, anaplasma, or both Lyme and anaplasma was seen in 24%, 5%, and 8% of the patients, respectively. None of the patients in our cohort died from their disease.
巴贝斯虫病是一种新出现的健康风险，临床医生需要了解其不同的临床表现。在我们的38例患者队列中，几乎一半的患者不记得被蜱虫叮咬过，由于症状的非特异性，诊断被延迟。68%的患者需要住院治疗，其中21%的患者需要入住重症监护病房。分别有24%、5%和8%的患者同时感染了莱姆病、无形体病或莱姆病和无形体病。我们队列中的患者均未因该病死亡。
