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a group of tickborne diseases due to infection with protozoa of the genus Babesia, usually seen in wild or domestic animals as a type of anemia; it may spread to humans as a zoonosis characterized by a malarialike fever with chills, sweats, myalgia, nausea and vomiting, hemolytic anemia, and splenomegaly.
6 cze 2023 · Definition. 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]
31 lip 2023 · Babesiosis is an infectious disease caused by intraerythrocytic, tick-borne protozoa of the Babesia species. [1] [2] [3] In the USA and Europe, the organism Babesia is transmitted following the bite of ticks. Babesia primarily infects animals and humans are only opportunistic hosts.
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 [1].
21 cze 2012 · This review article discusses the epidemiology, transmission, clinical manifestations, parasite life cycle, immunology, diagnosis, and treatment of babesiosis, a tickborne zoonosis.
