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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...
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    bighorn sheep, and humans. The American dog tick (D. variabilis) is a member of the genus. Dermacentor species are vectors of many pathogens, including Rickettsia...
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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...
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    [citation needed] The disease is spread by the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), Rocky Mountain wood tick (D. andersoni), brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus...
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    PMID 23781138. Piesman J, Sinsky RJ., Ability of Ixodes scapularis, Dermacentor variabilis, and Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) to acquire, maintain...
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  • (US): Dermacentor andersoni (Rocky Mountain wood tick), D. variabilis (American dog tick or wood tick) Region (US): D. andersoni: East, D. variabilis: East...
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    light detection by the haller's organ of adult american dog ticks, Dermacentor variabilis (Ixodida: Ixodidae)". Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. 8 (5): 764–771...
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  • D. variabilis may refer to: Dalaca variabilis, a moth species found in Chile Dendrobates variabilis, a frog species endemic to Peru Dermacentor variabilis...
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  • Ixodes marxi and Ixodes spinipalpus, and the ticks Dermacentor andersoni and Dermacentor variabilis. People with POWV have been mostly confirmed as having...
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  • paralysis are the Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis); however, 43 tick species have been implicated...
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    Light Detection by the Haller's Organ of Adult American Dog Ticks, Dermacentor variabilis (Ixodida: Ixodidae)". Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 8 (5): 764–771...
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    yellow dog tick of the tropics). Dermacentor (Dermacentor andersoni, the Rocky Mountain wood tick; Dermacentor variabilis, the American dog tick; D. reticulatus...
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    ehrlichiosis occurs in California in Ixodes pacificus ticks and in Dermacentor variabilis ticks. Nearly 600 cases were reported to the CDC in 2006. In 2001–2002...
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  • identify promising feeding locations. Unlike A. americanum, the tick Dermacentor variabilis, which prefers mammalian hosts, does not respond to uric acid. Some...
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    including lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis), and brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus...
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    "Exotic grass invasion reduces survival of Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variabilis ticks (Acari: Ixodidae)". J Med Entomol. 45 (5): 867–72. doi:10...
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    this fungus is also known to live within the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis. This relationship seems to be highly adapted but not as a classic...
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  • data. Earlier in his career, he had detailed how ticks of the genus Dermacentor were the main vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii that caused Rocky mountain...
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  • C. B. texasensis was "isolated in March 1998 from an adult male Dermacentor variabilis tick feeding on a coyote from Webb County, Texas." According to...
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    Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni; some other species of ticks, such as the American dog or wood tick, Dermacentor variabilis, also are vectors)...
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  • common name for several ticks, including: Dermacentor variabilis, also known as the American dog tick Dermacentor andersoni, also known as the Rocky Mountain...
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    Spotted Fever Disease Incidence and Habitat Probability of Its Vector Dermacentor variabilis (American DogTick). Geospatial Health 7: 91 -100. Sarkar, S. 1998...
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    Mountain spotted fever, are both spread by the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, and the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineous. One of the most...
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    species that commonly carry R. rickettsii. The American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), mainly found in the eastern United States, is the most common...
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    "Interspecific Differences between Small Mammals as Hosts of Immature Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae) and a Model for Detection of High Risk Areas of...
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  • tick responsible for what he called “Nantucket fever" (it was not Dermacentor variabilis, the dog tick, as alleged by other investigators) and to point to...
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  • has been shown to transmit the organism is the American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) but only in a research setting. In the past, domestic cats were...
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  • "Identification of Arsenophonus-type bacteria from the dog tick Dermacentor variabilis". Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 83 (3): 264–266. Bibcode:2003JInvP...
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  • fatal. Lone-star tick (Amblyomma americanum) American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) Rhipicephalus appendiculatus Yabsley MJ, Murphy SM, Cunningham...
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