Use of tafenoquine to treat a patient with relapsing babesiosis with clinical and molecular evidence of resistance to azithromycin and atovaquone

Tafenoquine is a highly effective treatment for Babesia microti infections in animal models. An immunocompromised patient infected by a strain of B. microti that was at least partially resistant to both azithromycin and atovaquone was treated with tafenoquine. Systematic clinical studies using tafen...

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Main Authors: Luis A. Marcos, Annie Leung, Laura Kirkman, Gary P. Wormser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:IDCases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250922000889