babesiosis
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Definition of babesiosis
: an infection with or disease caused by babesias
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Because Babesia parasites infect red blood cells, babesiosis can cause hemolytic anemia (from the destruction of red blood cells). — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, "Tick-borne Diseases In Connecticut," 6 May 2018 Ticks that transmit Lyme disease can also transmit other pathogens causing less-common diseases such as anaplasmosis and babesiosis. — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, "New Effort for Lyme Disease Vaccine Draws Early Fire," 9 July 2018 Other life-threatening infections like anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever are increasing in incidence even more quickly than Lyme. — Megan Molteni, WIRED, "We Have No Idea How Bad the US Tick Problem Is," 4 July 2018 Cases of Lyme, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, babesiosis, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis have increased several times over. — Joyce Sakamoto, Washington Post, "Ticks and mosquitoes are ready to deliver disease in a bite, but you can stop them," 18 June 2018 The same creature can also transmit other less common diseases, including babesiosis, granulocytic anaplasmosis and Powassan encephalitis. — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, "Tick Season Is Here, But Precautions Can Cut Disease Risks," 4 May 2018 There’s also the relatively new babesiosis, and the rare tularemia and Powassan virus. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "Why you shouldn’t freak out about tick and mosquito infections tripling," 2 May 2018 Ticks spread Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rabbit fever, Powassan virus and other ills, some of them only recently discovered. — Donald G. Mcneil Jr., New York Times, "Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly, C.D.C. Finds," 1 May 2018 For instance, the report noted that babesiosis data were only available starting in 2011 from some states. — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, "Tick- and mosquito-borne diseases more than triple, since 2004, in the US," 1 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'babesiosis.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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babesiosis
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Medical Definition of babesiosis
: infection with or disease caused by babesias
— called also
babesiasis
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