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Definition of Babesia
1. Noun. (microbiology epidemiology) a genre of hematozoa of the family ''Babesiidae'' that invades the erythrocytes of living organisms such as humans; piroplasma ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Babesia
1. a parasitic protozoan [n -S]
Medical Definition of Babesia
1. A genus of tick-borne protozoan parasites that infests the red blood cells of mammals, including humans. There are many recognised species, and the distribution is world-wide. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Babesia
Literary usage of Babesia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Clinical pathology of the blood of domesticated animals by Samuel Howard Burnett (1917)
"The red corpuscles vary greatly in size (Bonome). babesia MUTANS, THEILER Theiler
has recently described another species of babesia in the blood of ..."
2. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"babesia. Introduction.—The malarial organisms are a group of protozoan parasites
found to be the cause of a definite group of ..."
3. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"One of the best-known species is babesia bigemina, which causes Red-Water or ...
RED WATER babesia bigemina—Smith and Kilborne, 1893 Red water is one of the ..."
4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"At one time spotted fever of the Rocky Mountains was supposed to be due to a
parasite named babesia hominis. The parasite of Oroya fever is probably ..."
5. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"babesia diver gens (McFadyean and ... babesia gibsoni (Patton), cause of ...
babesia ovis (Babes), the cause of ..."
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