A North American tick which infests wild and domestic animals, often found clinging to plants and responsible for transmitting spotted fever.
革蜱
Genus Dermacentor, family Ixodidae, in particular D. andersoni
Example sentencesExamples
Tick bites can be from a variety of different species, the deer tick Ixodes dammini (Lyme disease carrier) and wood tick and dog tick, which are carriers of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, are most well known.
The wood tick is the principal vector in the western United States, whereas the dog tick is the most common vector in the eastern and southern United States.
Colorado tick fever is caused by an RNA orbivirus transmitted by the D. andersoni wood tick.
The disease that may best explain Clark's Three Forks fever is Colorado tick fever, a viral infection transmitted by the wood tick.
My students at Mitchell School found the first wood tick of the year.
The bacteria Rickettsia rickettsii that cause an RMSF infection are carried by the dog tick in the eastern United States and by the wood tick in the Rocky Mountain states.
You want to use all brown jimmies, so that you can fashion a cake resembling an engorged wood tick?
Rocky Mountain wood tick is a vector of bovine anaplasmosis and canine babesiosis (blood parasites of animals), and the toxins injected as it feeds cause tick paralysis.
Definition of wood tick in US English:
wood tick
noun
A North American tick which infests wild and domestic animals, often found clinging to plants and responsible for transmitting spotted fever.
革蜱
Genus Dermacentor, family Ixodidae, in particular D. andersoni
Example sentencesExamples
Colorado tick fever is caused by an RNA orbivirus transmitted by the D. andersoni wood tick.
My students at Mitchell School found the first wood tick of the year.
The wood tick is the principal vector in the western United States, whereas the dog tick is the most common vector in the eastern and southern United States.
The disease that may best explain Clark's Three Forks fever is Colorado tick fever, a viral infection transmitted by the wood tick.
The bacteria Rickettsia rickettsii that cause an RMSF infection are carried by the dog tick in the eastern United States and by the wood tick in the Rocky Mountain states.
Rocky Mountain wood tick is a vector of bovine anaplasmosis and canine babesiosis (blood parasites of animals), and the toxins injected as it feeds cause tick paralysis.
You want to use all brown jimmies, so that you can fashion a cake resembling an engorged wood tick?
Tick bites can be from a variety of different species, the deer tick Ixodes dammini (Lyme disease carrier) and wood tick and dog tick, which are carriers of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, are most well known.