Condition
Babesiosis
Individual at risk
Donor / Recipient
Guidance at RECRUITMENT
DEFER if ever diagnosed with or treated for disease
Guidance at CT/WORK-UP
Consider accepting donor if asymptomatic and infection is historic, at the discretion of the requesting transplant centre.
Justification for guidance
References
Transfusion-Associated Babesiosis with an Atypical Time Course after Non-Myeloablative Transplantation for Sickle Cell Disease. 2008 Ann Intern Med 148(10):794-795
Transfusion-Associated Babesiosis in the United States: A Description of Cases. 2011 Ann Intern Med 155(8):509-519