Rocky Mountain wood tick

arachnid
Also known as: Dermacentor andersoni

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Colorado tick fever

  • Rocky Mountain wood tick
    In Colorado tick fever

    …Rocky Mountain wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni).. Colorado tick fever is relatively rare; between 2003 and 2022, just 223 cases were reported in the United States.

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Rocky Mountain spotted fever

  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
    In Rocky Mountain spotted fever

    …the carrier species is the wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni, which is widely distributed in the adult form on large mammals, particularly cattle and sheep. In the eastern and southern United States, the common dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, which attacks humans, also acts as a carrier. In the southwestern United States,…

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