Babesia and Human Babesiosis

Affiliations

¹ Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, 28220 Madrid, Spain.
² UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, D04 N2E5 Dublin, Ireland.
³ Department of Blood Borne Parasites, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY 100065, USA.

Editorial

Estrella Montero et al. Pathogens. 2022.

. 2022 Mar 25;11(4):399.

doi: 10.3390/pathogens11040399.

¹ Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, 28220 Madrid, Spain.
² UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, D04 N2E5 Dublin, Ireland.
³ Department of Blood Borne Parasites, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY 100065, USA.

Abstract

Babesia is a genus of intraerythrocytic protozoan parasites belonging to the exclusively parasitic phylum Apicomplexa [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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