babesia
noun
ba·be·sia
bə-ˈbē-zh(ē-)ə 
plural babesias or babesiae
bə-ˈbē-zhē-ˌē
: any of a genus (Babesia) of sporozoans parasitic in mammalian red blood cells (as in Texas fever) and transmitted by the bite of a tick
called also piroplasm
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And while babesia has never been reported in Colorado and only once in the past five years in Montana, it had certainly been seen in other states across the U.S. Babesia microti is a parasite that, like malaria, invades red blood cells to reproduce.
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New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
There were two possibilities: babesia — a tick-borne parasite seen mainly in the Northeast and upper Midwest in the United States — or malaria, a mosquito-borne infection that is common in much of the world but not here in this country.
—New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
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New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
There were two possibilities: babesia — a tick-borne parasite seen mainly in the Northeast and upper Midwest in the United States — or malaria, a mosquito-borne infection that is common in much of the world but not here in this country.
—New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
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babesia
noun
ba·be·sia
bə-ˈbē-zh(ē-)ə
1
capitalized
: the type genus of the family Babesiidae
2
plural babesias or babesiae
-zhē-ˌē
: any of the sporozoans of the genus Babesia or sometimes the family Babesiidae that are parasitic in mammalian red blood cells (as in Texas fever) and are transmitted by the bite of a tick
: any of the sporozoans of the genus Babesia or sometimes the family Babesiidae that are parasitic in mammalian red blood cells (as in Texas fever) and are transmitted by the bite of a tick
called also piroplasm
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