babesiosis

English

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Etymology

After the discoverer of the protozoa, Victor Babeș: Babesia +‎ -osis.

Noun

babesiosis (countable and uncountable, plural babesioses)

  1. (pathology) Any of several malaria-like parasitic diseases in humans and other animals caused by Babesia, a genus of protozoa

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