Medical Definition of Babesia microti

1. A malaria-like protozoan naturally parasitizing certain rodents (Peromyscus and Microtus spp.) in North America; a number of human cases have been reported from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard islands and nearby coastal New England. The local tick vector is Ixodes dammini, whose numbers and infection levels have greatly increased in recent years with the increase in the deer population, which serves as an abundant blood source for I. Dammini. See: Borrelia burgdorferi. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Babesia Microti

Babes-Ernst granule
babesia
babesia
babesias
babesiasis
Babesia argentina
Babesia berbera
Babesia bigemina
babesia bovis
Babesia caballi
Babesia canis
Babesia divergens
Babesia equi
Babesia felis
Babesia gibsoni
Babesia microti
Babesia motasi
Babesia ovis
Babesia trautmanni
Babesiidae
Babesiidae
babesioses
babesiosis
babesiosis
Babe Didrikson
Babe Ruth
Babe Zaharias
babiche
babiches
babied

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