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Babesia
Blood smear of Babesia microti
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Clade:
Diaphoretickes
Clade:
SAR
Clade:
Alveolata
Phylum:
Apicomplexa
Class:
Aconoidasida
Order:
Piroplasmida
Family:
Babesiidae
Genus:
Babesia Starcovici, 1893
Species
Babesia annae
Babesia ardeae
Babesia behnkei
Babesia bennetti
Babesia bicornis
Babesia bigemina
Babesia bovis
Babesia caballi
Babesia canis
Babesia canis canis
Babesia canis rossi
Babesia canis vogeli
Babesia capreoli
Babesia crassa
Babesia divergens
Babesia gibsoni
Babesia hongkongensis
Babesia kiwiensis
Babesia lohae
Babesia mackerrasorum
Babesia major
Babesia motasi
Babesia muratovi
Babesia occultans
Babesia odocoilei
Babesia orientalis
Babesia ovata
Babesia ovis
Babesia pecorum
Babesia peircei
Babesia poelea
Babesia ugwidiensis
Babesia uriae
Babesia venatorum
Babesia vesperuginis
Babesia vitalii
B. microti ("Archaeopiroplasmida") group:[1][2]
Babesia felis
Babesia leo
Babesia microti
Babesia rodhaini
Babesia vulpes
Western US ("Prototheilerids") group:
Babesia conradae
Babesia duncani
Babesia lengau
Babesia sp. 'North Carolina dog'
Babesia,[3][4] also called Nuttallia,[5] is an apicomplexan parasite that infects red blood cells and is transmitted by ticks. Originally discovered by the Romanian bacteriologist Victor Babeș in 1888, over 100 species of Babesia have since been identified.[6][7]
Babesia comprises more than 100 species of tick-borne parasites that infect erythrocytes (red blood cells) in many vertebrate hosts.[8]
Babesia species infect livestock worldwide, wild and domestic vertebrate animals, and occasionally humans, where they cause the disease babesiosis.[9][7] In the United States, B. microti is the most common strain of the few which have been documented to cause disease in humans.
^Lack JB, Reichard MV, Van Den Bussche RA (2012). "Phylogeny and evolution of the Piroplasmida as inferred from 18S rRNA sequences". International Journal for Parasitology. 42 (4): 353–363. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.02.005. PMID 22429769.
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^Khayat A, Rathore M (2008). "Ch. 36: Babesia Species". In Barton LL, Volpe JJ, Friedman NR (eds.). The Neurological Manifestations of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiency Syndromes. Humana Press. pp. 343–6. ISBN 978-1-59745-391-2.
^"Babesia". NCBI Taxonomy Browser. 5864.
^Nowell F (November 1969). "The blood picture resulting from Nuttallia (= Babesia) rodhaini and Nuttallia (= Babesia) microti infections in rats and mice". Parasitology. 59 (4): 991–1004. doi:10.1017/S0031182000070475. PMID 4982449. S2CID 43157316.
^"DPDx: Laboratory Identification of Parasites of Public Health Concern. Babesiosis". CDC. 2009-03-05. Archived from the original on 2013-03-07.
^ abRistic M, Ambroise-Thomas P, Kreier JP (1984). Malaria and Babesiosis: Research Findings and Control Measures. New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology. Vol. 7. M. Nijhoff. pp. 100–170. ISBN 978-0-89838-675-2. OCLC 709342375.
^Spielman A, Wilson ML, Levine JF, Piesman J (January 1985). "Ecology of Ixodes Dammini-Borne Human Babesiosis and Lyme Disease". Annual Review of Entomology. 30 (1): 439–460. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.30.010185.002255. ISSN 0066-4170. PMID 3882050.
^Despommier DD (1995). Parasitic Diseases (3rd ed.). Springer-Verlag. pp. 224–6. ISBN 978-0-387-94223-0.
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identified babesiosis with xenodiagnosis, both in hamsters for Babesia microti and in gerbils for Babesia divergens. They now use faster diagnostic measures. Xenodiagnosis...
usually divided into: Unicellular organisms (e.g. malaria, Toxoplasma, Babesia) Macroparasites (worms or helminths) including nematodes such as parasitic...
chor (="coin thief"). A blood parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma corvi and Babesia has been reported from this species. Trematode parasites, Haplorchis vagabundi...
variety of brand names. It is effective against certain protozoa such as Babesia, Trypanosoma, and Cytauxzoon. The drug may also be effective against certain...
Malaria. P. falciparum, P. vivax, and P. malariae are pathogenic to humans. Babesia Gymnosporangium and other rusts Pyrenophora teres Cordyceps Pentastomida...
and R. decoloratorus. Development of Babesia in the tick is complex and includes sexual reproduction. These Babesia are transmitted from adult female boophilid...
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ruptures. Organisms whose life cycles rely on this process include Theileria, Babesia, Plasmodium, and Toxoplasma gondii. Sporogony is a type of sexual and asexual...
autoantibodies, leading to complement fixation, or by damage by parasites such as Babesia. Additionally, thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) can result in hemolysis...
differentiation from another major tick-borne disease, bovine babesiosis, caused by Babesia bigemina. Species of veterinary interest include: Anaplasma marginale and...
cytomegalovirus infections (in immunocompromised recipients), HTLV, and Babesia. Transfusion inefficacy or insufficient efficacy of a given unit(s) of...
only a mitosome, the circular mitochondrial genomes of Acavomonas and Babesia microti, and Toxoplasma's highly fragmented mitochondrial genome, consisting...
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