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Possibility Transmission of Human Babesiosis in Indonesia (Kemungkinan Transmisi Babesiosis pada Manusia di Indonesia)

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Babesiosis is a zoonotic disease caused by a protozoa which attacks and lives in red blood cells of animals or man and belong to the genus Babesia. The geographic distribution of babesiosis has reached Australia, America, Europe and Africa. Common species of Babesia that have infected man in North America and Europe are Babesia microti and Babesia divergens. Both species are severely pathogenic in splenetomized patients, in immunocompromized or immunosuppressed patients it caused fever, jaundice, severe anaemia, haemogllobinuria and often death. In Indonesia, cases of babesiosis in man has not been reported yet. However, the seroprevalence of babesiosis in cattle from South Sulawesi, Aceh, Timor, South Kalimantan, North Sulawesi and Sumba is 96 percent. Some species of the tick vectors are Boophilus microplus, Haemaphysalis sp. and Rhipicephalus sanguineus. The tropical climate of Indonesia which is highly wet, supports the growth of the ticks. Moreover, feeding the cattle in the field makes them easily infected by the parasite, so that transmission of babesiosis by ticks to man could possibly happen.

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Majalah Kedokteran Indonesia,45(9)1995:552-557

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: ., 1995

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