Excerpts From A Useful Babesia Research Paper.
The notion I can only learn from those who agree with everything I publish is silly. Difference has a use.
Here is a sample of some useful things in Pathogens Journal.
*The first human case of babesiosis was described in 1957 by Skrabalo and Deanovic in Yugoslavia, and the second in 1968 in California. [We are only starting to understand it, when the second known world case was in California in the 1960s].
*More than 100 species of Babesia have been described that infect a wide array of wild and domestic animals
*Six primary species have thus far been confirmed as human pathogens:
- Babesia crassa-like agent
- Babesia divergens
- Babesia duncani
- Babesia microti
- Babesia motasi
- Babesia venatorum
A top PhD Babesia expert in Canada, Scott, PhD, publishes most common in the North American nations is Babesia odelocoli. He feels 40x more common than microti. I have no interest in debating this here.
Source of brief excerpt listed with my thanks: Kumar A, O’Bryan J, Krause PJ. The Global Emergence of Human Babesiosis. Pathogens. 2021 Nov 6;10(11):1447. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10111447 (opens in new tab). Erratum in: Pathogens. 2022 May 23;11(5):607. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11050607 (opens in new tab). Erratum in: Pathogens. 2022 Aug 17;11(8):923. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11080923 (opens in new tab). PMID: 34832603; PMCID: PMC8623124.