Blood Donor Infects Premature Infants with Babesia | Babesia in Blood Donations | Dr. Daniel Cameron

Learn about a shocking incident where a Blood Donor Infects Premature Infants with Babesia , a rare but dangerous parasite, through Babesia in Blood Donations.
Babesia is a parasite which infects red blood cells, causing symptoms similar to those seen with malaria. It’s typically Transmitted Babesiosis by a tick bite but can be acquired through contaminated blood transfusions. The disease can be extremely difficult to recognize in adults. Imagine the challenge of diagnosing it in Blood Donor Infects Premature Infants with Babesia.
A team of researchers at Yale School of Medicine describe three premature infants with Babesia - all in one neonatal intensive care unit - who contracted Babesia from a single 24-year-old blood donor. The report was published by Glanternik and colleagues in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal.
A 24-year-old donor from Connecticut was not recognized by the blood bank.
Three premature infants contracted Babesia from this donor. All three premature infants were treated with a combination of azithromycin and atovaquone. one of the infants relapsed. None of the three premature infants required Babesia Blood Transfusion.
The authors warn of difficulties detecting Babesia in infants
Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for neonatal babesiosis in an infant who has received a transfusion because the clinical manifestations and concomitant lab abnormalities are non-specific and resemble those present in prematurity even in the absence of infection wrote the author.
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