**2. Babesiosis**

#### **2.1 Etiology**

Babesiosis is an infectious tick- borne disease of livestock that characterised by fever, anemia, haemoglobinuria and weakness. The disease also is Known by such names as bovine babesiosis, piroplasmosis, Texas fever, redwater, tick fever, and tristeza (Zaugg, 2009). The disease also is a hemoparasitic disease caused by protozoa of the genus Babesia (Phylum: Apicomplexa), which infects mainly ruminants (Melendez, 2000). Infection of a vertebrate host is initiated by inoculation of sporozoite form of parasites into the blood stream during the taking of a blood meal (Radostits et al. 2008). The list of babesia species is shown in table 1.

#### **2.2 Epidemiology**
