Ixodes scapularis

Ixodes scapularis
the eastern black-legged tick, the principal vector of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, and babesiosis in eastern and midwestern North America, and an occasional vector of tularemia. Its usual reservoirs are mice of the genus Peromyscus. Ticks formerly classified as I. dammini are now considered a subgroup of this species.

Ixodes scapularis. Unengaged nymph (A); engorged nymph (B); adult female (C).


Medical dictionary. 2011.

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