babesiosis
MALARIA-LIKE PARASITIC DISEASE CAUSED BY INFECTION WITH BABESIA AND NALGA, A GENUS OF APICOMPLEXA
Piroplasmosis; Equine piroplasmosis; Babeosis; Texas fever; Red water disease; Texas cattle fever; Texas tick fever; Redwater disease; Rhodesian fever; Rhodesian redwater fever; Redwater fever
[b??bi:z?'??s?s]
(also babesiasis ?b?:b?'z???s?s)
¦ noun a protozoal disease of livestock transmitted by tick bites, affecting the red blood cells and causing red or blackish urine.
Origin
early 20th cent.: from mod. L. Babesia (a genus of protozoans), from the name of the Romanian bacteriologist Victor Babes.