Babesiosis is a malaria-like parasitic disease caused by infection with Babesia, a genus of Apicomplexa. Human babesiosis is an uncommon but emerging disease in the North eastern and Midwestern United States and parts of Europe, and sporadic throughout the rest of the world. It occurs in warm months. Ticks transmit the human strain of babesiosis, so it often presents with other tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease. After trypanosomes, Babesia is thought to be the second-most common blood parasite of mammals, and they can have a major impact on health of domestic animals in areas without severe winters. In cattle, a major host, the disease is known as Texas cattle fever, red water, or piroplasmosis.
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Basic information:
http://columbia-lyme.org/patients/tbd_babesia.html lyme and tick borne diseases research center. babesiosis
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/babesiosis/pages/default.aspx national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. babesiosis
https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/co-infections/babesia/ lyme disease.org babesiosis
http://www.aldf.com/babesiosis/ american lyme disease foundation babesiosis
http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious-diseases/extraintestinal-protozoa/babesiosisbabesiosis
http://www.lymedisease.org.au/about-lyme-disease/co-infections/babesiosis/ lyme disease foundation of australia babesiosis
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=15257 babesiosis
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/babesiosis-11177babesiosis
http://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/babesiosis/ babesiosis
http://www.dermnetnz.org/arthropods/babesiosis.html babesiosis
http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/diseases-conditions/babesiosis.html babesiosis
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/factsheets/pdf/babesiosis.pdf virginia department of health january 2013 babesiosis
http://external.cis.strath.ac.uk/caddis/docs/babesiosis.html babesiosis
Advanced information:
http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/babesiosis/babesiosis
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/212605-overviewbabesiosis
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2001/0515/p1969.html american family physician babesiosis
http://patient.info/doctor/babesiosis.htm babesiosis
http://www.odh.ohio.gov/pdf/idcm/babesia.pdf odh - idcm revised 1/2015 babesiosis
http://igenex.com/website/babesiosis.php diagnostic tests for babesiosis
http://meduni09.edis.at/eucalb/cms_15/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=217&itemid=1 overview of zoonotic babesiosis
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/4/611.full.pdf state-of-the-art clinical article:babesiosis by maria r. boustani and jeffrey a. gelfand.
http://www.antimicrobe.org/b51.asp anti microbe babesiosis
http://www.cvbd.org/en/tick-borne-diseases/babesiosis/ companion vector borne diseases babesiosis
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/infectious/factsheets/factsheets/babesiosis.pdf babesiosis issued: 26 july 2012
http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/documents/babesia_cd.pdf surveillance case definition:babesiosis (babesia spp.)(updated march, 2007)
http://www.phsource.us/ph/palm/pda/babesiosis.pdf babesiosis
https://www.aabb.org/tm/eid/documents/babesia-species.pdf babesia species
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/forms/ctrldforms/cdph8270.pdf babesiosis:case report
http://parasite.org.au/para-site/text/babesia-text.html babesia
Research:
http://cmr.asm.org/content/13/3/451.full babesiosis by mary j. homer et al. doi: 10.1128/cmr.13.3.451-469.2000clin. microbiol. rev. july 2000vol. 13 no. 3 451-4691 july 2000
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2012/196/5/first-report-human-babesiosis-australia first report of human babesiosis in australia by sanjaya n senanayake et almed j aust 2012; 196 (5): 350-352. doi:10.5694/mja11.11378
http://www.ijmm.org/article.asp?issn=0255-0857;year=2005;volume=23;issue=4;spage=267;epage=269;aulast=marathe marathe a, tripathi j, handa v, date v. human babesiosis - a case report. indian j med microbiol 2005;23:267-9
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=474991 transfusion-associated babesiosis in the united states: a description of cases by barbara l. herwaldt, md, mph et al., ann intern med. 2011;155(8):509-519. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-155-8-201110180-00362
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/4/e1019 pediatricsoctober 2011, volume 128 / issue 4 clinical presentation and treatment of transfusion-associated babesiosis in premature infants by kari a. simonsen et al
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-014-0509-3 review:human babesiosis, an emerging tick-borne disease in the people’s republic of china by xia zhou,shang xia,ji-lei huang,ernest tambo,,hong-xiang zhuge,xiao-nong zhou,parasites & vectors20147:509,doi: 10.1186/s13071-014-0509-3
http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1003387 babesia: an emerging infectious threat in transfusion medicine by cheryl a. lobo et al, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003387
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=s0074-02762003000300004 mem. inst. oswaldo cruz vol.98 no.3 rio de janeiro apr. 2003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0074-02762003000300004 coexistence of antibodies to tick-borne agents of babesiosis and lyme borreliosis in patients from cotia county, state of são paulo, brazil by natalino hajime yoshinari et al.
https://tn.gov/assets/entities/health/attachments/babesiosis.pdf environmental investigation following the first human case of babesiosis in tennessee by charissa fritzen et alj. parasitol., 100(1), 2014, pp. 106–109 american society of parasitologists 2014
http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/courses/bio348/thach/2011/babesiosis%20review.pdf babesiosis: recent insights into an ancient disease by k.-p. hunfeld et al., international journal for parasitology 38 (2008) 1219–1237
http://www.vri.cz/docs/vetmed/53-5-229.pdf babesiosis as a disease of people and dogs. molecular diagnostics: a review by b. skotarczak,department of genetics, university of szczecin, poland veterinarni medicina, 53, 2008 (5): 229–235 review article
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/criid/2015/405263/ case reports in infectious diseases
volume 2015 (2015), article id 405263, 3 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/405263 case report:babesia in a nonsplenectomized patient requiring exchange transfusion by dikshya sharma et al,
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-35794126 dog disease babesiosis could spread, vet warns 13 march 2016
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http://www.thecattlesite.com/diseaseinfo/196/bovine-babesiosis-redwater-tick-fever/ the cattle site bovine babesiosis (redwater, tick fever) babesiosis
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http://www.protatek.com/pdf/babesiapitbulls-cook.pdf babesiosis in pit bull terriers by chris cook, rvt protatek reference laboratory
http://www.veterinaryworld.org/2008/april/feline%20babesiosis.pdf feline babesiosis by mritunjay kumar, pallav shekhar, s.haque and dinesh mahto department of veterinary medicine ,ranchi veterinary college, kanke, ranchi-834 006, jharkhand veterinary world, vol.1(4): 120-121
http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/ojvr/v76n1/14.pdf onderstepoort journal of veterinary research, 76:59–66 (2009) canine babesiosis j.p. schoeman department of companion animal clinical studies, faculty of veterinary science, university of pretoria,private bag x04, onderstepoort, 0110 south africa
http://jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1224&context=tmf decicco, md, anthony; peiris, md, b. niluk; kelly, md, cecilia; latreille, md, michael; and jungkind, phd, donald (2012) "twocases of co-infection with babesiosis and lyme disease," the medicine forum: vol. 13, article 15.available at: http://jdc.jefferson.edu/tmf/vol13/iss1/15
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http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/monsters-inside-me/videos/the-tick-borne-parasite/ babesiosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alabnh-2is0 dr. richard horowitz on babesiosis - norvect 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joakxoorjoq life cycle of babesia microti
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efshyhtd3eo babesiosis symptoms and treatments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frbxpopmxne lyme disease & babesiosis: updates on diagnosis and treatment 2011 - richard i. horowitz, md
Presentations/quiz/newspaper articles:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3495518/dog-owners-warned-deadly-tick-borne-disease-uk-time.html dog owners warned about deadly tick-borne disease which has been found in the uk for the first time by hugo gye for mailonline published: 17:16 gmt, 16 march 2016 | updated: 00:58 gmt, 17 march 2016