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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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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
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
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.