A tick-borne parasitic disease of cattle and other livestock, also called tick fever or redwater disease, caused by protozoan Babesia parasites that destroy red blood cells, producing high fever, anemia and dark red urine, with severe or fatal disease common in adult animals with no prior exposure. Together with anaplasmosis it forms the "cattle tick fever" complex historically eradicated from the United States through a coordinated tick control program in the early twentieth century, and it remains endemic across most tropical and subtropical cattle-raising regions of the world wherever its Rhipicephalus tick vectors are established.
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Cattle, Livestock Bovine babesiosis (cattle tick fever), transmitted by cattle ticks, is a major hemoparasitic disease of cattle.
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1. Babesiosis (Wikipedia)
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Babesiosis or piroplasmosis is a malaria-like vector-borne parasitic disease caused by infection with a eukaryotic parasite in the order Piroplasmida, typically a Babesia or Theileria, in the phylum Apicomplexa. Human babesiosis transmission via tick bite is most common in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and parts of Europe, and sporadic throughout the rest of the world. It occurs in warm weather.
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A tick-borne parasitic disease of cattle and other livestock, also called tick fever or redwater disease, caused by protozoan Babesia parasites that destroy red blood cells, producing high fever, anemia and dark red urine, with severe or fatal disease common in adult animals with no prior exposure.
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