The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and State Health Departments should include Blood-Type Variables in their Babesiosis Case Reports

Ryan Philip Jajosky; Audrey N Jajosky; Philip G Jajosky

doi:10.1016/j.transci.2020.102824

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and State Health Departments should include Blood-Type Variables in their Babesiosis Case Reports

Transfus Apher Sci. 2020 Oct;59(5):102824. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2020.102824. Epub 2020 May 25.

Authors

Ryan Philip Jajosky¹, Audrey N Jajosky², Philip G Jajosky³

Affiliations

¹ Emory University, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 11364 Clifton Rd NE Atlanta, GA, 30322 USA; Biconcavity Inc., 1106 Spring Mill Dr. SW, Lilburn, GA, USA. Electronic address: rjajosk@emory.edu.
² Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Department of Pathology, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, USA. Electronic address: audrey.jajosky@uhhospitals.org.
³ Biconcavity Inc., 1106 Spring Mill Dr. SW, Lilburn, GA, USA; Retired USPHS Officer at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1106 Spring Mill Dr. SW, Lilburn, GA, 30047, USA. Electronic address: jajosky@gmail.com.

No abstract available

Keywords: ABO blood group; Babesia microti; Babesiosis; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Disease surveillance; Exchange transfusion; MNS blood group; Public health; Therapeutically-rational exchange (T-REX); United States of America.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Babesia microti
Babesiosis / diagnosis*
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
Humans
United States