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  2. Dermacentor variabilis - Wikipedia

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    Dermacentor variabilis, also known as the American dog tick or wood tick, is a species of tick that is known to carry bacteria responsible for several diseases in humans, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia (Francisella tularensis). It is one of the best-known hard ticks. Diseases are spread when it sucks blood from the host.

  3. Dermacentor andersoni - Wikipedia

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    Dermacentor andersoni, commonly known as the Rocky Mountain wood tick, is a hard tick, or member of the Ixodidae family, with three life stages including larvae, nymph, and finally adult, or, more entomologically, imago. This tick is generally located in the northwest United States and southwest Canada along the Rocky Mountains.

  4. Woodtick - Wikipedia

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    Woodtick or wood tick is the common name for several ticks, including: Dermacentor variabilis, also known as the American dog tick;

  5. A guide to the tick species every American should know - AOL

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    Ticks have been documented transmitting a wide range of protozoan, bacterial, viral, and fungal pathogens to humans, pets, and livestock. With tick season right around the corner in most areas, we ...

  6. Tick season is here, so here are common Maryland varieties ...

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    Areas like Maryland also include the Wood Tick, brown dog tick, lone star tick, Gulf Coast tick and the Asian longhorned tick. ... In 2018, the state's Department of Natural Resources confirmed ...

  7. Ticks that cause a life-threatening red meat allergy are ...

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    Alpha gal syndrome, which causes a red meat allergy from a tick bite, is becoming more common in the U.S. Know the symptoms of this potentially deadly illness. Ticks that cause a life-threatening ...

  8. Ticks of domestic animals - Wikipedia

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    Typical Rhipicephalus species that feed on cattle in Africa are R. appendiculatus, the brown ear-tick, and R. evertsi, the red-legged tick. Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus (or now simply Rhipicephalus microplus ) is the most important tick of cattle in many tropical and subtropical countries to which it spread from Southeast Asia on ...

  9. Colorado tick fever - Wikipedia

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    Colorado tick fever (CTF) is a viral infection transmitted from the bite of an infected Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni). It should not be confused with the bacterial tick-borne infection, Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Colorado tick fever is probably the same disease that American pioneers referred to as "mountain fever".