Morphology, epidemiology, and phylogeny of Babesia: An overview

Abstract

Babesiosis is a tick-borne hemoprotozoan disease of domestic and wild animals. The disease is caused by various species of Babesia and some species of Babesia have also zoonotic significance. The parasite in vertebrate hosts’ remains in erythrocytes and the morphology of Babesia spp. is not uniform in all vertebrate hosts. With the advancement of science, particularly the use of molecular techniques made it easy to study the evolution of parasites and thereby reclassifying Babesia spp. as per their phylogeny and to establish the relation of one isolate of Babesia spp. with isolates throughout the world. An attempt also made in this communication to enlighten the readers regarding relationship of one isolate of Babesia spp. of a particular area to another isolate of Babesia spp. of that area or other parts of the world and phylogenetic classification of Babesia spp. was also discussed. It has been concluded that as the study on Babesia is complex in nature so monitoring of the infection with the use of modern techniques is very much needed to control the infection. Second, more research work on phylogenetic relationship of Babesia spp. isolated from different hosts is needed, particularly in India to know the evolution of Babesia spp. of a particular area, as it has great importance to study the trans boundary diseases of animals.

Optimization of Polymerase Chain Reaction for Molecular Detection of Babesia Felis in Domestic Cats

“…B abesiosis is caused by an intra-erythrocytic haemoprotozoan called Babesia in mammals, birds and reptiles. The economic importance of this disease cannot be neglected due to haemolytic anaemia followed by increased fatality (Laha et al, 2015). Babesiosis is routinely diagnosed through light microscopy when piroplasms are observed in Giemsa-stained thin blood smears.…”

Анализ Динамики Зараженности Клещей Бабезиями На Территории Кировской Области

“…К данному моменту описано более 100 видов и генотипов бабезий [8,15,17] [13]. Более того, некоторые из них описаны как патогенные для человека.…”

“…Изначально заболевание проявляется в форме общего недомогания и усталости; состояние схоже с симптомами простуды и малярии: лихорадка, озноб, потоотделение, боль в мышцах и суставах [11,13]. Обострение симптомов может включать гемолитическую анемию, внутрисосудистую коагулопатию, гепатомегалию и спленомегалию.…”

DNA Microarray Detection of 18 Important Human Blood Protozoan Species

“…Babesia causes a hemolytic disease known as babesiosis, which causes malaria-like symptoms and is often misdiagnosed as malaria. Approximately 100 species of Babesia have been identified, but only a few are documented as humans pathogens [18, 19]. Babesia microti is the most common strain associated with human infections [20].…”