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Ixodes ricinus
Synonym(s): Castor bean tick, Sheep tick, Deer tick
Introduction
Classification
Taxonomy
- Class: Arachnida.
- Family: Ixodidae.
- Genus: Ixodes.
Distribution
- Most common in areas of rough grazing and moorland and woods and copses in the western half of the country particularly the West Country, Wales, parts of west Scotland and Grampians in UK.
Significance
- Unsightly appearance of engorged tick on dog.
- The immunological response to the mouthparts and secretions causes a nodule and subsequent scab, more severe if the mouthparts are left in when the tick is physically removed, and this may become a pustule.
- Transmits Borrelia burgdorferi Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease Arthritis: borrelial Borreliosis ) to dogs (infection not uncommon but disease is uncommon) and also to man, other animals and birds and transmits a number of other infections to other animals.
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Diagnosis
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Further Reading
Publications
Refereed papers
- Recent references from PubMed and VetMedResource.
- Gray J S, Kahl O, Janetzki C et al (1995) The spatial distribution of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected Ixodes ricinus in the Connemara region of County Galway, Ireland. Exp Appl Acarol 19 (3), 163-172 PubMed.
- Opdebeeck J P (1994) Vaccines against blood-sucking arthropods. Veterinary Parasitology 54 (1-3), 205-222 PubMed.