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cattle tick

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cattle tick
n.
A brown tick (Boophilus annulatus) whose bite transmits the causative agent of Texas fever in cattle.
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Although Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, the tropical/southern cattle tick, and Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the brown dog tick, are widespread in the Caribbean (24), they have not been implicated as vectors of R.
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Subsequently, numerous cases have been reported in tourists returning from southern Africa, where the cattle tick Amblyomma hebraeum is the vector (2,3).
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