New England souvenirs

J Travel Med. 2011 Nov-Dec;18(6):425-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2011.00562.x. Epub 2011 Oct 12.

Abstract

A 54-year-old woman presented with 2 weeks of fever after a trip to the Northeastern United States. Except for an erythematous skin lesion on her right shoulder, no physical abnormality was detected. We diagnosed concomitant borreliosis and babesiosis. Both infections were possibly acquired by one bite from Ixodes scapularis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Babesiosis / complications
  • Babesiosis / ethnology*
  • Babesiosis / microbiology
  • Bites and Stings / complications
  • Bites and Stings / enzymology*
  • Bites and Stings / microbiology
  • Borrelia burgdorferi / isolation & purification*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Indonesia / ethnology
  • Ixodes / microbiology*
  • Lyme Disease / complications
  • Lyme Disease / ethnology*
  • Lyme Disease / microbiology
  • Middle Aged
  • New England / epidemiology