Babesiosis is sometimes called the malaria of the northeast: like Plasmodium, Babesia parasites invade red blood cells and rupture them, causing fever, hemolytic anemia, and dark urine. Severity scales with spleen function - asplenic and elderly patients can develop life-threatening parasitemia.
Babesia microti lives inside red blood cells and survives standard blood-bank storage. Between 1979 and 2009, 159 of 162 reported United…
Because Babesia microti and Borrelia burgdorferi share the same vector and the same reservoir mice, a single Ixodes scapularis bite can…
Dermacentor reticulatus carries tick-borne encephalitis virus in parts of central and eastern Europe, and is also a principal vector of…
Amblyomma cajennense (sensu lato) - now recognized as a complex of six closely related species - is the principal Latin American vector of…
Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum cause clinically similar diseases but parasitize different white blood cells.…
Anaplasma phagocytophilum lives inside human neutrophils, where it forms cytoplasmic clumps called morulae visible on a Giemsa-stained…