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To the Editor: Six weeks after being bitten by a deer tick, a pregnant 31-year-old woman began to have fever, chills, fatigue, and neck pain. During the fifth day of fever, she became jaundiced and was hospitalized. On physical examination, she was 37 weeks pregnant, febrile (temperature, 39.4°C [103°F]), and slightly jaundiced. There was no rash. Laboratory studies showed a hematocrit of 29 percent, a white-cell count of 5400 per cubic millimeter, a platelet count of 96,000 per cubic millimeter, and total bilirubin concentration of 5.4 mg per deciliter. Babesia microti were present in 2 percent of her erythrocytes (. . . [Full Text of this Article]

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