#babesia

• Babes — A Romanian proper name, globally renowned due to Victor Babeș (1854–1926), a famous physician, bacteriologist, and morphopathologist, member of the Romanian Academy and co-author of the world's first treatise on bacteriology; eponym for the parasite genus 'Babesia', the disease 'babesiosis', and the 'Babeș-Negri' corpuscles, his name being honored by the University in Cluj-Napoca (Babeș-Bolyai).
• Babesia — Babesia; a genus of parasitic protozoans transmitted by ticks that infect and destroy red blood cells in mammals, including humans, causing a severe condition known as babesiosis characterized by hemolytic anemia and high fever.