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soft tick

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Noun1.soft tick - tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head
tick - any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals


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Although its persistence in Senegal may be caused by asymptomatic carriers involved in the domestic transmission cycle, we demonstrated that the soft tick Ornithodoros sonrai can be naturally infected with the causative agent.
Soft tick species may also undergo more than one nymphal molt before reaching the adult stage.
All about ticks The ticks implicated in the four tick-borne illnesses outlined above belong to the Ixodidae (hard ticks) family as opposed to the soft tick Argasidae family.
 
 
 
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