babesia

See also: Babesia and babésia

English

Etymology

After Romanian bacteriologist Victor Babeș.

Noun

babesia (usually uncountable, plural babesias)

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

Translations

any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia

Portuguese: babésia f

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