Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: Ticks are vectors of nematodes, protozoa, rickettsiae, spirochetes, other bacteria, m viruses that cause disease in humans à other animals.Complex relationships have evolved between me ular tick species, certain organisms that they harbor and transmit, and susceptible vertebrate host species.Effects of tick-borne pampa on host species vary from asymptomatic to fatal depending on the species involved and their erac It is critical that arthropod vectors and the organisms they transmit be identified accurately.€ ere is a crisis in biosystematics of arthropods due to several factors noted in the introduction.Approximately 80 of the estimated 850 described tick species occur in the United States; although all feed on vertebrate blood, only a dee mall number impact people and livestock directly.These few species, however, are responsible for considerable ines and economic loss.Tick-borne Lyme borreliosis is prevalent in North America, qae and Asia.It accounts for more than 90% of all reported vector-borne disease in the United ied Totals of 9.677.8.185.and 11.424 cases were reported for 1992, 1993, and 1994,
DOI: 10.2307/2399966
Author: James H. Oliver
Institution: Missouri Botanical Garden
Language: English
Subfield: Parasitology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2004714564