Human Babesiosis on Nantucket Island, USA: Description of the Vector, Ixodes (Ixodes) Dammini, N. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae)1
- 23 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 15 (3) , 218-234
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/15.3.218
Abstract
The Ixodes vector of human babesiosis in the northeastern United States represents a new species. All active stages of this tick, designated Ixodes dammini , n. sp., are described and compared with I. scapularis Say and I. muris Bishopp & Smith. In the Nantucket babesiosis focus, adult I. dammini most commonly feed on deer; larvae and nymphs are numerous on mice. Throughout the recorded species range (coastal areas in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts; as well as Wisconsin and Ontario), each active stage feeds on a variety of vertebrates.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Human Babesiosis in the United StatesAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1978
- Human Babesiosis on Nantucket Island: Transmission by Nymphal Ixodes TicksThe American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1976
- Ticks, a monograph of the Ixodoidea. Bibliography of the Ixodoidea,Published by Smithsonian Institution ,1911