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Human babesiosis is a zoonotic infection caused by Babesia parasites transmitted by the bite of ixodid ticks that have distinct geographical distributions based on the presence of their competent natural animal hosts, which include rodents, cattle and deer.
21 paź 2024 · Babesiosis is a malaria-like infectious disease endemic to the Northeast and Upper Midwest regions of the United States and increasingly on the Pacific Coast. The agent typically associated with infection in this area is Babesia microti, a parasitic blood-borne piroplasm that infects erythrocytes .
Babesiosis is a protozoan parasitic infection affecting humans and animals. These infections are commonly transmitted by various species of Ixodes ticks depending upon the geographical location. They can also be transmitted by packed cell transfusion and transplacental route from mother to child.
21 cze 2012 · This review article discusses the epidemiology, transmission, clinical manifestations, parasite life cycle, immunology, diagnosis, and treatment of babesiosis, a tickborne zoonosis.
15 lut 2023 · Babesiosis is an emerging tick-borne disease caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa that are primarily transmitted by hard-bodied (ixodid) ticks and rarely perinatally, through blood transfusion and organ transplantation [2, 3].
Herein we report a case of human babesiosis, outline the patient's clinical course and response to therapy, and describe the use of PCR as a rapid and accurate means of confirming the diagnosis.
6 cze 2023 · Babesiosis is a tick-borne zoonotic disease typically characterised by fever, haemolysis, and haemoglobinuria. It is most frequently caused by the intra-erythrocytic parasite Babesia microti, commonly transmitted through the bite of Ixodes ticks (deer ticks). [1]
