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Tick-Borne Diseases

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Infectious Diseases and Arthropods

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Abstract

There are three families of ticks recognized in the world today:

  1. 1.

    Ixodidae (hard ticks).

  2. 2.

    Argasidae (soft ticks).

  3. 3.

    Nuttalliellidae (a small, curious, little-known group with some characteristics of both hard and soft ticks).

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Goddard, J. (2000). Tick-Borne Diseases. In: Infectious Diseases and Arthropods. Infectious Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-721-5_4

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