Transmission risk evaluation of transfusion blood containing low-density <i>Babesia microti</i>.

"furthermore 100 ul of whole blood collected from the nod-scid mice infected with b microti was inoculated into one healthy nod-scid mouse (second generation) and the infection status of these mice was detected via nested pcr and microscopy examination ( supplementary data 2 1 ).; the infection status of these mice was detected using nested pcr and microscopy examination ( supplementary data 2 2 )."

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"The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. The Shanghai Natural Science Foundation fund (21ZR1469900), Science and Technology Leading Talent Team in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2022LJRC0009), the National Parasitic Resources Center, and the Ministry of Science and Technology fund (NPRC-2019-194-30), the National Key Research & Development Program of China (2018ZX10101002-003, 2018ZX10734404), the Program for National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2021YFC2300800, 2021YFC2300803) National Nature Science Fundation of China (U22A20526) supported this work."