Apicomplexans are a group of pathogenic protists that cause various diseases in humans
and animals that cause economic losses worldwide. These unicellular eukaryotes are …

Malaria caused by Plasmodium species and transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes affects
large human populations, while Ixodes ticks transmit Babesia species and cause …

Parasitic diseases cause significant morbidity and mortality in the developing and
underdeveloped countries. No efficacious vaccines are available against most parasitic …

Animal models of human babesiosis have provided a basic understanding of the
immunological mechanisms that clear, or occasionally exacerbate, Babesia infection and …

Babesiosis causes high morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised individuals. An
earlier study suggested that lethal Babesia rodhaini infection in murine can be evaded by …

Sickle red blood cells (RBCs) represent a naturally existing host-cell resistance mechanism
to hemoparasite infections. We investigate the basis of this resistance using Babesia …

Background Relapsing babesiosis often occurs in highly immunocompromised patients and
has been attributed to the acquisition of resistance against drugs commonly used for …

Babesia is an intraerythrocytic, obligate Apicomplexan parasite that has, in the last century,
been implicated in human infections via zoonosis and is now widespread, especially in parts …

Malaria and babesiosis, the two primary intraerythrocytic protozoan diseases of humans,
have been reported in multiple cases of co-infection in endemic regions. As the geographic …

Babesia divergens is an intra-erythrocytic parasite that causes malaria-like symptoms in
infected people. As the erythrocyte provides the parasite with the infra-structure to grow and …