Dermacentor


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Synonyms for Dermacentor

vectors of important diseases of man and animals

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Recruitment of winter ticks (Dermacentor albipictus) in contrasting forest habitats, Ontario, Canada.
Besides these, Dermacentor (Ghosh et al., 2007) and Amblyomma (Ali et al., 2013) have also been reported.
In this area, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is spread by American Dog Ticks, brown dog ticks and Rocky Mountain wood ticks (Dermacentor andersoni).
Dermacentor variabilis ticks are known to carry R rickettsii, the causative agent of RMSF, and R montanensis, a rickettsia of unknown human pathogenicity.
rickettsii is the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say).
The UK (then but not now) was free of European ticks, such as Dermacentor reticulatus, and the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, and we wanted to keep them out.
(5) Convalescent sera from all four patients exhibited high immunoglobulin antibody titers to the Rocky Mountain spotted fever agent, Rickettsia rickettsii, and also to a new spotted fever group rickettsia, Rickettsia 364D; later detected in the Pacific Coast tick, Dermacentor occidentals.
The Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) is not believed to carry Lyme; however, this nasty critter does transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, Colorado tick fever, and tick paralysis.
Okazuje sie jednak, ze coraz bardziej rozpowszechnionym gatunkiem staje sie rowniez kleszcz lakowy (Dermacentor reticulatus), a jego wystepowanie jest bardziej powszechne, niz uwazano.
Das associacoes carrapato-hospedeiro encontradas, destacam-se os relatos, ineditos no pais, de Dermacentor nitens Neumann, 1897, e Rhipicephalus microplus (Canestrini, 1888) em L.
Occurrence of equine pyroplasmosis were always related to distribution and seasonal activity of the biological vectors Ticks in the genus Rhipicephalus Dermacentor and Hyalomma are responsible for transmission (Battur et al .