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Epidemiology of babesiosis

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Levine [1] identified 71 species within the genus Babesia. Our knowledge of the epidemiology of these organisms and the diseases that they may cause varies from scanty (only described in the vertebrate host) to extensive, including qualitative and quantitative data on transmission, reservoir mechanisms and factors predisposing to disease outbreaks. The paucity of epidemiologic studies on most species reduces, by default, the number of species which this chapter will focus upon.

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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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Smith, R.D. (1984). Epidemiology of babesiosis. 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_13

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