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| Babesia | |
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| Blood smear of Babesia microti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Alveolata |
| Phylum: | Apicomplexa |
| Class: | Aconoidasida |
| Order: | Piroplasmida |
| Family: | Babesiidae |
| Genus: | Babesia Starcovici, 1893 |
| Species | |
B. microti ("Archaeopiroplasmida") group:[1][2] Western US ("Prototheilerids") group: | |
Babesia,[3][4] also called Nuttallia,[5] is an apicomplexan parasite that infects red blood cells and is transmitted by ticks. Originally discovered by 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 that have been documented to cause disease in humans.
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