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Babesia microti Infection Inhibits Melanoma Growth by Activating Macrophages in Mice

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Babesia microti is an obligate intraerythrocytic protozoan transmitted by an Ixodes tick. Infections caused by protozoa, including Plasmodium yoelii and Toxoplasma gondii, are shown to inhibit tumor development by activating immune responses.
Xiang Shu   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

Continuous in vitro propagation of Babesia microti. [PDF]

open access: yesInfect Immun
ABSTRACT The currently accepted initiation of Babesia infection describes a sporozoite stage infused into the host, along with other saliva components, by the tick vector. This sporozoite can enter and initiate erythrocyte infection directly. In the particular case of Babesia microti
Fuller L.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Babesia infection of small mammals from southern taiga of Omsk region

open access: yesActa Biomedica Scientifica, 2016
Blood samples were taken from 541 small mammal captured in 2013-2015 in Znamensky district of Omsk region from Ixodes persulcatus and Ixodes trianguliceps sympatric area and examined for the Babesia spp.
V. A. Rar   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nucleic Acid Prevalence of Zoonotic Babesia in Humans, Animals and Questing Ticks, a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Background: Zoonotic Babesia infections are an emerging public health threat globally. The geographical distribution, animal reservoirs and tick vectors vary greatly across Babesia species, and estimations of prevalence reported in works within the ...
Xiao-Yan Yao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Additional file 1 of Evolutionary analysis of Babesia vulpes and Babesia microti-like parasites

open access: yes, 2022
Additional file 1: Table S1. Geographical and host origins of Babesia microti-like specimens studied herein. Table S2. Estimated pairwise FST values of sequences between different geographical populations of B. microti-like parasites. Table S3. Estimated
Yeonchul Hong (620127)   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Reclassification of Theileria annae as Babesia vulpes sp. nov.

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2015
Background Theileria annae is a tick-transmitted small piroplasmid that infects dogs and foxes in North America and Europe. Due to disagreement on its placement in the Theileria or Babesia genera, several synonyms have been used for this parasite ...
Gad Baneth   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular and Kinetic Characterization of Babesia microti Gray Strain Lactate Dehydrogenase as a Potential Drug Target

open access: yes, 2014
Babesia microti is an emerging zoonotic protozoan organism that causes “malaria-like” symptoms that can be fatal in immunocompromised people. Owing to lack of specific therapeutic regiment against the disease, we cloned and characterized B.
Mohamad Alla Terkawi   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Babesia microti Protein BmSP44 Is a Novel Protective Antigen in a Mouse Model of Babesiosis

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2020
Babesiosis caused by Babesia species imposes an increasing threat to public-health and so far, there is no effective vaccine to prevent Babesia infections. Babesia surface antigen may participate in the invasion of erythrocytes.
Hui Wang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiple piroplasm parasites (Apicomplexa: Piroplasmida) in northeastern populations of the invasive Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann (Ixodida: Ixodidae), in the United States

open access: yesParasitology, 2023
Piroplasms, which include the agents of cattle fever and human and dog babesiosis, are a diverse group of blood parasites of significant veterinary and medical importance.
Heidi Herb   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Babesia microti-like en un perro inmunocompetente [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
La babesiosis canina es una enfermedad infecciosa de distribución mundial causada por parásitos intraeritrocitarios transmitidos por garrapatas. Si bien ha sido tradicionalmente asumido que sólo dos de las 73 especies de babesias identificadas causan ...
Pallas, E.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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