babesia

See also: Babesia and babésia

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After Romanian bacteriologist Victor Babeș.

babesia (usually uncountable, plural babesias or babesiae)

(microbiology, epidemiology) Any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia that invades the erythrocytes of living mammals, notably including cattle and humans, causing any of several babesioses.

any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia