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Science 30 April 1976:
Vol. 192. no. 4238, pp. 479 - 480
DOI: 10.1126/science.769166
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Science, Vol 192, Issue 4238, 479-480
Copyright © 1976 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Human babesiosis: reservoir in infection on Nantucket Island

GR Healy, A Speilman, and N Gleason

Examination of blood films from six species of rodents and lagomorphs on Nantucket Island disclosed infections with Babesia microti in all of five Microtus pennsylvanicus (field mice) and 31 of 39 Peromyscus leucopus (white-footed or deer mice). Six human cases of clinical babesiosis have recently been diagnosed on the island.


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Human Babesiosis in the United States.
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Nantucket Fever: An Additional Case of Babesiosis.
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