21. Though the symptoms can be similar to Lyme disease, babesiosis is much harder to recognize and diagnose. 22. Human diseases transmitted by microtine rodents include cystic hydatid disease, tularemia, bubonic plague, babesiosis , giardiasis 23. Even with much study of babesiosis and malaria, misdiagnosis with blood smear can be frequent and problematic. 24. Babesiosis is found mainly on the East Coast from Maryland to Maine and in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.25. Serology is also useful for differentiating babesiosis from malaria in cases where people are at risk for both infections. 26. This is a routine part of the veterinary examination of dogs and ruminants in regions where babesiosis is endemic. 27. Outspoken red discoloration of the grey matter " post mortem " further strengthens suspicion of cerebral babesiosis . 28. Horowitz treated me with more oral antibiotics for the ehrlichiosis, plus quinine and other antimalarial drugs for the babesiosis . 29. Unlike Lyme disease, which is caused by bacteria, babesiosis comes from a parasite that infects red blood cells. 30. The tick that spreads Lyme disease _ and two other diseases called babesiosis and ehrlichiosis _ has a complex life cycle.
