Laha Ramgopal, Das M, Sen A
Division of Animal Health, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Meghalaya, India.
Trop Parasitol. 2015 Jul-Dec;5(2):94-100. doi: 10.4103/2229-5070.162490.
Babesiosis is a tick-borne hemoprotozoan disease of domestic and wild animals. The disease is caused by various species of Babesia and some species of Babesia have also zoonotic significance. The parasite in vertebrate hosts' remains in erythrocytes and the morphology of Babesia spp. is not uniform in all vertebrate hosts. With the advancement of science, particularly the use of molecular techniques made it easy to study the evolution of parasites and thereby reclassifying Babesia spp. as per their phylogeny and to establish the relation of one isolate of Babesia spp. with isolates throughout the world. An attempt also made in this communication to enlighten the readers regarding relationship of one isolate of Babesia spp. of a particular area to another isolate of Babesia spp. of that area or other parts of the world and phylogenetic classification of Babesia spp. was also discussed. It has been concluded that as the study on Babesia is complex in nature so monitoring of the infection with the use of modern techniques is very much needed to control the infection. Second, more research work on phylogenetic relationship of Babesia spp. isolated from different hosts is needed, particularly in India to know the evolution of Babesia spp. of a particular area, as it has great importance to study the trans boundary diseases of animals.
巴贝斯虫病是一种由蜱传播的家畜和野生动物血液原虫病。该疾病由多种巴贝斯虫引起，某些巴贝斯虫种类还具有人畜共患病意义。脊椎动物宿主体内的寄生虫寄生于红细胞中，并且巴贝斯虫属在所有脊椎动物宿主体内的形态并不一致。随着科学的进步，特别是分子技术的应用，使得研究寄生虫的进化变得容易，从而能够根据系统发育对巴贝斯虫属进行重新分类，并确定巴贝斯虫属的一个分离株与世界各地分离株之间的关系。本通讯还试图向读者阐明特定地区的一个巴贝斯虫属分离株与该地区或世界其他地区的另一个巴贝斯虫属分离株之间的关系，并讨论了巴贝斯虫属的系统发育分类。得出的结论是，由于对巴贝斯虫的研究本质上很复杂，因此非常需要利用现代技术监测感染情况以控制感染。其次，需要对从不同宿主分离的巴贝斯虫属的系统发育关系进行更多研究，特别是在印度，以了解特定地区巴贝斯虫属的进化情况，因为研究动物的跨界疾病具有重要意义。
