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. 2021 Nov 6;10(11):1447. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10111447

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Babesiosis cases by age in the United States. Babesiosis cases reported by age to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States between 2011 and 2018 are shown. The low numbers of cases in children is due to the mild clinical symptoms resulting from B. microti infection rather than exposure to the infection. Almost half of children are asymptomatically infected compared to about a fifth of adults. Thus, B. microti-infected children are not diagnosed as frequently as adults (adapted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2016, 65(3) [95]).