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Research on babesiosis vaccines

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Malaria and Babesiosis

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Babesiosis is a tick-transmitted disease of animals characterized by pyrexia, anemia, occasionally hemoglobinuria, and the presence of infecting protozoa in the host’s erythrocytes [1]. Losses due to babesiosis may be higher than 50% when susceptible cattle are introduced into endemic areas of the disease. Animals which survive the acute phase of the disease remain carries of the agent for variable periods of time. Accordingly, two categories of infection are recognized being babesiosis and babesiasis. Babesiosis refers to the period when there is rapid growth and multiplication of the parasite and there are clinical signs of disease, while babesiasis encompasses the latent infections observed in animals which have recovered from the clinical disease and in newborn animals passively immunized via colostrum. Other occasionally used synonymous terminologies for babesiosis are: Texas cattle tick fever, prioplasmosis, tick fever, red water and tristesa.

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  1. Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    Miodrag Ristic

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  1. Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, 61801, Urbana, ILL, USA

    Miodrag Ristic DVM, PhD

  2. Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, University of Grenoble, 38700, La Tronche, France

    Pierre Ambroise-Thomas MD, DSc

  3. Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Sciences, Ohio State University, 43210, Columbia, OH, USA

    Julius Kreier DVM, PhD

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Ristic, M. (1984). Research on babesiosis vaccines. In: Ristic, M., Ambroise-Thomas, P., Kreier, J. (eds) Malaria and Babesiosis. New Perspectives in Clinical Microbiology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6042-8_7

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