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Human babesiosis is a zoonotic disease caused by protozoan parasites of the Babesia genus, primarily in the Northeastern and Midwest United States due to B. microti, and Western Europe due to B. divergens.
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 zoonotic disease of humans caused by the hemoprotozoan piroplasm parasite “ Babesia.” The primary reservoir hosts are usually the rodents, primarily the white-footed mice.
9 paź 2013 · Although best known as an animal disease, human babesiosis is attracting increasing attention as a worldwide emerging zoonosis. Humans are commonly infected by the bite of ixodid ticks. Rare ways of transmission are transplacental, perinatal and transfusion-associated.
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]
21 cze 2012 · Human babesiosis is an infectious disease caused by intraerythrocytic protozoa of the genus babesia.
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].
