Babesia, called Nuttallia, is an apicomplexan parasite that infects red blood cells and is transmitted by ticks.
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Babesia, called Nuttallia, is an apicomplexan parasite that infects red blood cells and is transmitted by ticks.
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Babesia is a protozoan parasite found to infect vertebrate animals, mostly livestock mammals and birds, but occasionally humans.
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Avian Babesia species are characterized as having ring and amoeboid forms, and fan-shaped or cruciform tetrad schizonts.
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Babesia documented the disease by describing signs of a severe hemolytic illness seen uniquely in cattle and sheep.
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Babesia show host specificity, allowing many different subspecies of Babesia to emerge, each infecting a different kind of vertebrate organism.
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Different species of Babesia are able to withstand the stress of the host's immune system.
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Babesia can be diagnosed at the trophozoite stage, and can be transmitted from human to human through the tick vector, through blood transfusions, or through congenital transmission.
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Babesia species are spread through the saliva of a tick when it bites.
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Some species of Babesia can be transmitted from a female tick to its offspring before migrating to salivary glands for feeding.
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Currently, no vectors for avian Babesia have been identified, but they are assumed to be ticks.
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Babesia species require competent vertebrate and invertebrate hosts to maintain transmission cycles.
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Babesia poelea was described from brown boobies on Sand Island, Johnston Atoll, Central Pacific.
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Babesia peircei has been observed in 2 species of penguins, the jackass penguin from South Africa and the little penguin from southern Australia.
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Babesia species enter red blood cells at the sporozoite stage.
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The few distinguishing factors for Babesia include protozoa with varying shapes and sizes, the potential to contain vacuoles, and the lack of pigment production.
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