babesiosis

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

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

Noun

babesiosis (countable and uncountable, plural babesioses)

  1. (pathology) A malaria-like parasitic disease caused by Babesia, a genus of protozoa.

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