black-legged tick

Related to black-legged tick: American dog tick, lone star tick

black-legged tick

(blăk′lĕgd′)

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black-legged tick - parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)

Ixodes scapularis

hard tick, ixodid - ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head

genus Ixodes, Ixodes - type genus of the family Ixodidae

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The black-legged tick (or deer tick, Ixodes scapularis) spreads the disease in the northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and north-central United States.

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The Lyme spirochete is most often transmitted by the bite of a black-legged tick, although person-to-person transmission via intimate contact similar to Zika virus has also been suggested.

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In addition to bacterial species and plasmid-caused genetic diversity, there are several different ticks known to carry Borrelia; namely, deer ticks, the Western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus), Ixodes angustus (no common name), the Lone Star tick (Amblyomma americanum), and the brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus).

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It's contracted when a person is bitten by a black-legged or a western black-legged tick infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.

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cases of Lyme disease have been reported annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority occurring in the Northeast and the Midwest, where the vector is the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis.

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In the United States, the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis)is the main vector of the spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi, which is the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, a tick-borne zoonosis that is worldwide (Estrada-Pefia and Jongejan, 1999).

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Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterium that has been reported in robins, songbirds, cardinals, thrushes, sparrows and other ground foraging birds, same assign some cases waterfowl causing Lyme disease in human which could transmit through the bite of Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes scapularis) and the Western Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes pacificus) that play a role in zoonosis.

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The western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus: A vector of Borrelia burgdorferi.

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chaffeensis in other tick species, including the dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (18,22,23), the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus (22), Ixodes ricinus in Russia (24), and the ticks A.