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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Babesiosis is an uncommon malaria-like parasitic disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Babesia. Babesiosis is a vector-borne illness usually transmitted by ticks. (Babesia microti uses the same tick vector, Ixodes scapularis, as Lyme disease does, and frequently occurs in conjunction with it.)