TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 342. Babesiosis
A1  - Krause, Peter J.
A2  - Rudolph, Colin D.
A2  - Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2  - Lister, George E.
A2  - First, Lewis R.
A2  - Gershon, Anne A.
PY  - 2011
T2  - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
AB  - Babesiosis  is  a  malaria-like  illness  caused  by  intraerythrocytic  protozoa  that  are  transmitted  by  the  bite  of  the  same  hard-bodied  ticks  (Ixodid)  that  transmit  Lyme  disease  and  human  granulocytic  anaplasmosis.1-2  Babesia  species  are  parasites  of  mammals  and  birds  that  are  currently  classified  in  the  subphylum  Apicomplexa,  together  with  those  organisms  that  cause  malaria  (Plasmodium  sp.)  and  toxoplasmosis  (Toxoplasma  gondii).  Only  a  few  of  the  more  than  90  species  of  Babesia  cause  disease  in  humans  including,  Babesia  microti  and  Babesia  microti-like  species  from  the  United  States,  Asia,  and  Europe,  Babesia  duncani  (WA1)  from  California  and  Washington  State,  Babesia  divergens  and  Babesia  divergens-like  species  from  Europe  and  the  United  States,  and  Babesia  venatorum  (EU1)  from  Europe.2-3  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7031486
ER  -