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This is a very important journal article showing that untreated babesia can cause death. Most U.S. journal articles only report on acute cases. This was published in Australia.
Also very important - See the box labeled Diagnosing Human Babesiosis in Australia. When doing blood smears the article says to do 3 sets of thick and thin smears 8 to 12 hours apart.
It is hard not to wonder if Steve had had more blood smears done if they would have found his babesia. Of course we all know they should have treated empirically, but that just doesn't happen in a teaching hospital.
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