Hosts of " Dermacentor " ticks include many large and small mammals, including horses, deer, cattle, peccaries, porcupines, tapirs, desert bighorn sheep, and humans.
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"Dermacentor " are equine piroplasmosis, and the " Flavivirus " that causes Powassan encephalitis . " Dermacentor " ticks inject a neurotoxin that causes tick paralysis.
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"Dermacentor " are equine piroplasmosis, and the " Flavivirus " that causes Powassan encephalitis . " Dermacentor " ticks inject a neurotoxin that causes tick paralysis.
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Grey jays have been seen landing on moose ( " Alces alces " ) to remove and eat engorged winter ticks ( " Dermacentor albipictus " ) during April and May in Algonquin Provincial Park.
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By comparison, the North American paralysis tick " Dermacentor andersoni " ( found in the Rocky Mtns ) does not produce a granuloma at the site of attachment, and in this case the paralysis rapidly regresses after the tick is removed.
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By this approach, he was able to identify the 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 the white-footed mouse as the pathogen's reservoir . ( Later, deer ticks were shown to be the vector of Lyme disease .)
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The Dermacentor ticks, " Dermacentor andersonii " and " Dermacentor variabilis " are also vectors of the POWV . There are a total of 6 known species of tick that act as vectors, with " Ixodes cookei " being the predominant species in Canada and the Northeastern United States and " Ix . scapularis " as a significant vector in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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The Dermacentor ticks, " Dermacentor andersonii " and " Dermacentor variabilis " are also vectors of the POWV . There are a total of 6 known species of tick that act as vectors, with " Ixodes cookei " being the predominant species in Canada and the Northeastern United States and " Ix . scapularis " as a significant vector in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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The Dermacentor ticks, " Dermacentor andersonii " and " Dermacentor variabilis " are also vectors of the POWV . There are a total of 6 known species of tick that act as vectors, with " Ixodes cookei " being the predominant species in Canada and the Northeastern United States and " Ix . scapularis " as a significant vector in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Lyme disease, or borreliosis, is caused by " Borrelia burgdorferi " and spread by " Ixodes pacificus " on the West coast of the United States and by " Rickettsia rickettsii ", which causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever, are both spread by the American dog tick, " Dermacentor variabilis ", and the brown dog tick, " Rhipicephalus sanguineous ".
