How a tick bite on a scrotum caused a two-month diagnostic dilemma: case
Doctors worked through a lengthy list of differential diagnoses, with PCR confirming babesiosis.
A tick bite on a US man’s scrotum led doctors down a diagnostic rabbit hole that eventually resulted in the second human diagnosis of babesiosis in Australia.
Doctors checked back through his extensive travel history to finally isolate the cause of his illness, a hitchhiking deer tick from a camping expedition in Maine, just before he had headed to the NT.
