When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Dermacentor variabilis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermacentor_variabilis

    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. List of The Tick characters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Tick_characters

    The Tick has different main allies in each of his media appearances: American Maid (voiced by Kay Lenz).A parody of Wonder Woman and Captain America exclusive to the 1994 series, American Maid is the World's Most Patriotic Domestic and has a love/hate relationship with Die Fledermaus, though there are hints at a past romance.

  4. Dermacentor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermacentor

    Dermacentor reticulatus Fabricius, 1794 – ornate cow tick, ornate dog tick, meadow tick, marsh tick; Dermacentor rhinocerinus Denny, 1843; Dermacentor silvarum Olenev 1931; Dermacentor sinicus Schulze, 1932; Dermacentor steini Schulze, 1933; Dermacentor taiwanensis Sugimoto, 1935; Dermacentor tamokensis Apanaskevich & Apanaskevich, 2016 [10]

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

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/guide-tick-species-every...

    Long Star ticks are generally found in the West, but they've recently made the jump to the East Coast, too. Ticks have been documented transmitting a wide range of protozoan, bacterial, viral, and ...

  6. Georgia is home to more than 20 species of ticks. Here ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/georgia-home-more-20-species...

    American dog tick is oval and flattened in shape. Depending on whether or not they have fed on host blood, they can grow to more than one-half inch. American dog ticks are brown with whitish to ...

  7. Ticks of domestic animals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticks_of_domestic_animals

    It is transmitted by the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis. This microbe circulates between wild bobcats in southern USA, causing little apparent disease. If it infects domestic cats, it causes a cytauxzoonosis that is eventually fatal. [citation needed] Transmission of Babesia from cow to cow by feeding of one-host boophilid ticks

  8. Woodtick - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodtick

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

  9. Rocky Mountain spotted fever - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_spotted_fever

    Dogs and medium-sized mammals are the preferred hosts of an adult American dog tick, although it feeds readily on other large mammals, including human beings. This tick is the most commonly identified species responsible for transmitting R. rickettsii to humans.