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    Dermacentor is a genus of ticks in the family Ixodidae, the hard ticks. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, with native species on all continents...
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    Dermacentor variabilis, also known as the American dog tick or wood tick, is a species of tick that is known to carry bacteria responsible for several...
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    Dermacentor andersoni, commonly known as the Rocky Mountain wood tick, is a hard tick, or member of the Ixodidae family, with three life stages including...
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    Dermacentor reticulatus, also known as the ornate cow tick, ornate dog tick, meadow tick, and marsh tick, is a species of tick from the family Ixodidae...
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    Dermacentor albipictus, the winter tick, is a species of hard tick that parasitizes many different mammal species in North America. It is commonly associated...
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    Dermacentor circumguttatus is a species of hard tick belonging to the family Ixodidae. D. circumguttatus can reach a length of 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in)....
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    Dermacentor occidentalis, also known as the Pacific coast tick, is a species of wood tick in the arthropod family Ixodidae. This species is part of the...
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    Dermacentor auratus is a hard-bodied tick of the genus Dermacentor. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The length from capitulum...
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    low.[citation needed] The disease is spread by the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), Rocky Mountain wood tick (D. andersoni), brown dog tick...
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  • common name for several ticks, including: Dermacentor variabilis, also known as the American dog tick Dermacentor andersoni, also known as the Rocky Mountain...
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  • tick-borne pathogenic spotted fever group Rickettsia species borne by Dermacentor ticks. Oleg Mediannikov; Kotaro Matsumoto; Irina Samoylenko; Michel Drancourt;...
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    gondii. Wild boar in southern regions are frequently infested with ticks (Dermacentor, Rhipicephalus, and Hyalomma) and hog lice. The species also suffers...
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    Cosmiomma – 1 species Cornupalpatum – 1 species Compluriscutula – 1 species Dermacentor – 34 species (includes Anocentor) Haemaphysalis – 166 species Hyalomma...
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  • the spotted fever group, identified from Rocky Mountain wood ticks (Dermacentor andersoni). Its type strain is SkalkahoT. The organism is passed transstadially...
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  • Mountain spotted fever Organism: Rickettsia rickettsii Vector: Wood tick (Dermacentor variabilis), D. andersoni Region (US): East, Southwest Vector: Amblyomma...
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    that follow this life cycle are called one-host ticks. The winter tick Dermacentor albipictus and the cattle tick Boophilus microplus are examples of one-host...
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  • paralysis are the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis); however, 43 tick species have been...
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    typhus. The ticks that transmit it are primarily various species of Dermacentor and Haemaphysalis. Harrus S, Perlman-Avrahami A, Mumcuoglu KY, Morick...
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    (Coltivirus) transmitted from the bite of an infected Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni). It should not be confused with the bacterial tick-borne infection...
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    R (2003). "Ability of Ixodes persulcatus, Haemaphysalis concinna and Dermacentor silvarum ticks to acquire and transstadially transmit Borrelia garinii"...
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    shelters and greyhound kennels. In Europe, it is also transmitted by Dermacentor ticks with an increase in infections reported due to people traveling...
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  • data. Earlier in his career, he had detailed how ticks of the genus Dermacentor were the main vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii that caused Rocky mountain...
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    Gerstaecker, who initially placed it in the genus Dermacentor due to the ornamentation;: 40  all Dermacentor ticks are ornate.: 29  Its syntypes are at the...
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    second feeders are ticks. In North America B. caballi is being spread by Dermacentor nitens. Furmaga, Stanisław (1983). Choroby pasożytnicze zwierząt domowych...
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    1933 Dermacentor rhinocerotis Neumann, 1911 Amblyomma aureum Neumann, 1899 Amblyomma foai Neumann, 1899 Amblyomma walckenaeri Neumann, 1899 Dermacentor rhinocerotis...
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    including lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis), and brown dog tick...
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    PMID 23781138. Piesman J, Sinsky RJ., Ability of Ixodes scapularis, Dermacentor variabilis, and Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) to acquire, maintain...
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    Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni; some other species of ticks, such as the American dog or wood tick, Dermacentor variabilis, also are vectors)...
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    landing on moose (Alces alces) to remove and eat engorged winter ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) during April and May in Algonquin Provincial Park. Researchers...
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    Alces alces population response to infestation level of winter ticks Dermacentor albipictus". Wildlife Biology. 2020 (2). doi:10.2981/wlb.00619. S2CID 220526796...
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