Human babesiosis, an emerging tick-borne disease in the People’s Republic of China
Abstract Babesiosis is a typical zoonotic, emerging disease caused by a tick-borne intraerythrocytic protozoan of Babesia spp. that also can be transmitted by blood transfusion. Babesiosis imposes an increasing public-health threat. We reviewed and mapped epidemiological studies on Babesia in vector...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2014-11-01
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Series: | Parasites & Vectors |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0509-3 |