Guidance on the Management of Asymptomatic Blood Donors Who Test Positive for <i>Babesia</i>
Several factors support these management recommendations. Blood donors typically comprise healthy, immunocompetent adults in whom most Babesia infections are self-limited based on studies showing that molecular evidence of infection clears in almost all asymptomatic blood donors without intervention.
Authors
- Jennie Johnson
- Susan E. Beekmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0278-506X)
- Jeremy W. Jacobs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5719-9685)
- Robert P. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7413-4189)
- Paul G. Auwaerter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8273-9057)
- Evan M. Bloch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8181-9517)
- Philip M. Polgreen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0630-5898)
- David Sullivan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0319-0578)
- Jacob E. Lemieux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2758-4005)
- Vijay K. Sikand
- Whitney Perry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7890-227X)
- Ann E. Woolley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2810-1618)
- Jeffrey A. Gelfand (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4118-5676)
- Edouard Vannier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6654-9053)
- Laura A. Kirkman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4085-5540)
- Howard M. Heller
- Sunil K. Sood
- Gary P Wormser
- Luis A Marcos
- Peter J Krause
Institutions
- Broad Institute (US)
- Tufts University (US)
- University of Iowa (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Tufts Medical Center (US)
- Memorial Hospital of South Bend (US)
- Maine Medical Center (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- New York Medical College (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Cohen Children's Medical Center (US)
- Maine Medical Center Research Institute (US)
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- Stony Brook University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaf721
- Primary Topic
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00