tick pyemia

tick pyemia
a condition seen in lambs in the British Isles up to the age of three months, in which the bite of the tick Ixodes ricinus becomes infected by Staphylococcus aureus, sometimes with septicemia or bacteremia that can be fatal.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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