Babesia mi·cro·ti (m -kr  t)n. A species of Babesia that causes babesiosis in humans, usually transmitted by the northern deer tick. |
B point,
n See point, B.
Babesia microti,
n.pl the parasitic protozoan microbes from the Apicomplexa phylum, spread primarily by ticks. They are implicated in babesiosis, a disease with malaria-like manifestations.
Babesia microti
The babesiosis agent, an intraerythrocytic protozoan parasite endemic in rodents, Peromyscus spp and Microtus spp, transmitted to humans via a tick, Ixodes dammini Diagnosis LM of thick smears of
peripheral blood
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