Remesar Alonso, SusanaArnal Bernal, José LuisGómez Rodriguez, AndreaPrieto Lago, AlbertoGarcía-Dios, DavidBenito Zúñiga, Alfredo ÁngelPanadero Fontán, RosarioMorrondo Pelayo, María PatrocinioDíez Baños, Pablo2023-02-172023-02-172022Remesar, S., Arnal, J.L., Gómez, A. et al. A case report of fatal feline babesiosis caused by Babesia canis in north western Spain. BMC Vet Res 18, 177 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-022-03287-41746-6148http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30150In Europe, Babesia infections in cats are sporadic and only partial knowledge is currently available since the number of described cases including both the clinical presentation and the molecular identification of the Babesia species involved is limited. In the present case report, the clinical signs, the epidemiological data and the molecular results suggest that this is the first reported fatal case of feline babesiosis caused by Babesia caniseng© 2022 The Authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the dataAtribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Babesia canisFeline babesiosisCatSpainCase reportjournal article10.1186/s12917-022-03287-4open access