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May 23, 2024 · The eastern paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, is a tick of much veterinary importance in Australia. Each year, thousands of dogs and cats present to veterinary clinics and hospitals with signs of tick paralysis. In a previous paper, we constructed two models to explain prevalence and temporal distributions of tick paralysis cases presenting to ...
4 days ago · Tick-borne diseases, primarily transmitted by Ixodes scapularis (black-legged or deer tick), are increasingly prevalent in the United States, surpassing diseases spread by mosquitoes. With over 490,000 annual cases, these diseases, including Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and Powassan virus, present significant public health challenges.
2 days ago · Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes. [4] [9] [10] The most common sign of infection is an expanding red rash, known as erythema migrans (EM), which appears at the site of the tick bite about a week afterwards. [1] .
May 13, 2024 · The paralysis tick Ixodes holocyclus is largely confined to coastal bushland and adjacent ranges but local marsupials carry other species of hard tick in the ACT. Photographic ID guides can be accessed on the internet
May 10, 2024 · In particular, the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) poses the greatest threat to horses as it can transmit pathogens of two commonly reported equine TBDs in the United States (US), Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease and Anaplasma phagocytophilum, which causes anaplasmosis.
May 8, 2024 · In a new study published in May in the Journal of Medical Entomology, researchers analyzing tick photos submitted to the TickSpotters program at the University of Rhode Island find that three tick species—such as the blacklegged tick ( Ixodes scapularis )—that transmit Lyme and other human diseases are present in hundreds of U.S. counties where ...
May 16, 2024 · Since then, studies based on molecular evidence have reported anthropophilic and zoophilic ticks harboring M. mitochondrii such as A. americanum, H. punctata, Ixodes holocyclus, Rhipicephalus bursa, R. sanguineus s. l. and Rhipicephalus turanicus [61,62].
