@article {4564,
	title = {Transfusion-transmitted babesiosis in Washington State: first reported case caused by a WA1-type parasite.},
	journal = {The Journal of infectious diseases//J Infect Dis},
	volume = {175},
	year = {1997},
	month = {1997},
	pages = {1259 - 62},
	address = {UNITED STATES},
	abstract = {Most cases of babesiosis reported in the United States have been tickborne and caused by Babesia microti, the etiologic agent of all previously described transfusion-transmitted cases. A 76-year-old man with the first recognized case of transfusion-transmitted infection with the recently identified WA1-type Babesia parasite is described. The subject received multiple blood transfusions in 1994. Indirect immunofluorescent antibody testing of serum from 57 blood donors implicated a 34-year-old man (WA1 titer, 1:65,536) whose donation had been used for packed red cells. Isolates of the organisms that infected the recipient and the donor, both of whom were spleen-intact residents of Washington State, were obtained by hamster inoculation. The DNA sequence of a 536-bp region of the nuclear small subunit-rRNA gene of both isolates was identical to that of WA1 (isolated in 1991 from the index WA1 case-patient). Effective measures for preventing transmission of babesiosis by blood transfusion are needed.},
	keywords = {*Babesia/cl [Classification], *Babesiosis/tm [Transmission], *Blood Donors, *Erythrocyte Transfusion, Adult, Aged, Animals, Antibodies, Protozoan/bl [Blood], Babesia/ge [Genetics], Babesia/ip [Isolation \& Purification], Babesiosis/ps [Parasitology], Child, Cricetinae, DNA, Protozoan/ch [Chemistry], DNA, Protozoan/ip [Isolation \& Purification], DNA, Ribosomal/ch [Chemistry], DNA, Ribosomal/ip [Isolation \& Purification], Female, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect, Humans, Male, RNA, Protozoan/ge [Genetics], Spleen, Washington},
	isbn = {0022-1899},
	author = {Herwaldt, B L and Kjemtrup, A M and Conrad, P A and Barnes, R C and Wilson, M and McCarthy, M G and Sayers, M H and Eberhard, M L}
}
