Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Babesia spp.
- Babesia bigemina
- Reduced apical complex
- Babesiosis AKA Texas Red Water Fever AKA Pioplasmosis
- In RBCs of vertebrates + ticks
- First documented case of antrhopod transmission of any parasite
- One host ticks (feeding, maturing, and mating in same host)
- Boophilus annulatus
- Exclusive to cattle via transovarian transmission
- Boophilus microplus
- Infects cattle; destroys RBCs, causes bloody urine; can kill in a week
- Also infects deer, water buffalo, and zebu
- Babesia sp.
- Similar to plasmodium
- Abvsence of pigment from destroyed Hb
- Tetrad pathogenomic for babesia
- Canine Piroplasmosis
- B. canis
- B. gibsoni
- Rhipicephalus sanguineus
- Causes Depression, anorexia, anemia, splenomegaly
- Human Babesiosis
- B. microti in New England
- Accidental Host
- Naturally found in field mice, voles, and deer
- Transmitted by Ixodes dammini
- Causes fever, weakness, jaundice, heptosplenomegaly; hemolytic anemia
- More serious in persons who have had spenectomies
- Fatal in 4 with splenectomies