Babesia, also called Nuttallia, is an apicomplexan parasite that infects red blood cells and is transmitted by ticks. Originally discovered by the Romanian...

Babesia microti is a parasitic blood-borne piroplasm transmitted by deer ticks. B. microti is responsible for the disease babesiosis, a malaria-like disease...

reproduction occurs in the tick gut). They include the tick parasites Babesia and Theileria. They are minute rounded or pyriform parasites found within...