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45 relations: Acari, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Andrew Spielman, Animal, Arachnid, Arthropod, Babesiosis, Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia miyamotoi, Canada, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chelicerata, EcoHealth, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Frost, Greystone Books, Guineafowl, Horizontal gene transfer, Human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Invertebrate, Ixodes, Ixodes pacificus, Ixodidae, Lyme disease, Nature (journal), New Jersey, North America, Overwintering, Parasitiformes, Parasitism, Powassan virus, Sociality, Spirochaete, The New England Journal of Medicine, Theileria microti, Thomas Say, Tick, Ticks of domestic animals, United States, University of Florida, Vector (epidemiology), White-footed mouse, White-tailed deer, Wilderness Press.
Acari
Acari (or Acarina) are a taxon of arachnids that contains mites and ticks.
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Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Anaplasma phagocytophilum (formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophilum) is a gram-negative bacterium that is unusual in its tropism to neutrophils.
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Andrew Spielman
Andrew Spielman, Sc.D. (24 February 1930 – 20 December 2006) was a prominent American public health entomologist and Professor of Tropical Public Health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Arachnid
Arachnids are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata.
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Arthropod
An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.
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Babesiosis
Babesiosis is a malaria-like parasitic disease caused by infection with Babesia, a genus of Apicomplexa.
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Borrelia burgdorferi
Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterial species of the spirochete class of the genus Borrelia.
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Borrelia miyamotoi
Borrelia miyamotoi is a spirochete bacterium in the genus Borrelia.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading national public health institute of the United States.
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Chelicerata
The subphylum Chelicerata (New Latin, from French chélicère, from Greek khēlē "claw, chela" and kéras "horn") constitutes one of the major subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda.
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EcoHealth
EcoHealth is an emerging field of study researching how changes in the earth’s ecosystems affect human health.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Frost
Frost is the coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight.
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Greystone Books
Greystone Books is a Vancouver, Canada-based publisher of nonfiction books that publishes in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. The company was established in 1993 as an imprint of Douglas & McIntyre under founding publisher Rob Sanders and has been an independent publisher, Greystone Books Ltd., since 2013.
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Guineafowl
Guineafowl (sometimes called "pet speckled hen", or "original fowl" or guineahen) are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes.
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Horizontal gene transfer
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) is the movement of genetic material between unicellular and/or multicellular organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission of DNA from parent to offspring.
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Human granulocytic anaplasmosis
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is a tick-borne, infectious disease caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum, an obligate intracellular bacterium that is typically transmitted to humans by ticks of the Ixodes ricinus species complex, including Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus in North America.
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Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an agriculture, life science, pathogen, and invasive species research facility in Florida affiliated with University of Florida.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
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Ixodes
Ixodes is a genus of hard-bodied ticks (family Ixodidae).
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Ixodes pacificus
Ixodes pacificus, the Western black-legged tick, is a species of Ixodes, a parasitic tick found on the western coast of North America.
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Ixodidae
The Ixodidae are the family of hard ticks or scale ticks, one of the two big families of ticks, consisting of over 700 species.
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Lyme disease
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Borrelia type which is spread by ticks.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Overwintering
Overwintering is the process by which some organisms pass through or wait out the winter season, or pass through that period of the year when "winter" conditions (cold or sub-zero temperatures, ice, snow, limited food supplies) make normal activity or even survival difficult or near impossible.
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Parasitiformes
Parasitiformes is an order of Acari (treated as a suborder and superorder in outdated classifications).
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Parasitism
In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
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Powassan virus
Powassan virus is a flavivirus transmitted by ticks, found in North America and in the Russian Far East.
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Sociality
Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (Gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.
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Spirochaete
A spirochaete or spirochete is a member of the phylum Spirochaetes, which contains distinctive diderm (double-membrane) bacteria, most of which have long, helically coiled (corkscrew-shaped or spiraled, hence the name) cells.
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The New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society.
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Theileria microti
Theileria microti is a parasitic blood-borne piroplasm transmitted by deer ticks.
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Thomas Say
Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 – October 10, 1834) was an American entomologist, conchologist, and herpetologist.
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Tick
Ticks are small arachnids, part of the order Parasitiformes.
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Ticks of domestic animals
Ticks of domestic animals directly cause poor health and loss of production to their hosts by many parasitic mechanisms.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Florida
The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.
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Vector (epidemiology)
In epidemiology, a disease vector is any agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism; most agents regarded as vectors are organisms, such as intermediate parasites or microbes, but it could be an inanimate medium of infection such as dust particles.
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White-footed mouse
The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from Ontario, Quebec, Labrador, and the Maritime Provinces (excluding the island of Newfoundland) to the southwest United States and Mexico.
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White-tailed deer
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the whitetail or Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia.
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Wilderness Press
Wilderness Press is a publisher of outdoor guidebooks and maps founded in Berkeley, California in 1967.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodes_scapularis
