BABESIOSIS IN MAN - CASE FROM SCOTLAND

Babesiosis, a world-wide tick-borne protozoal disease of wild and domestic animals, has occasionally infected man, and cases have been reported from both Europe and America.1 The Old World cases, often associated with cattle babesiosis, have generally affected patients who have had splenectomy and the outcome has often been fatal; the American cases, in patients with intact spleens, have been centred on the Island of Nantucket and appear to be a less serious form of the disease associated with a rodent babesia. We summarise here the details of the first recorded case of babesiosis in the United Kingdom; the case will be reported fully elsewhere. © 1979, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.