ixodes ricinus

An alpha-proteobacterium invades the mitochondria of the tick Ixodes ricinus.

The main tick vector is the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus.

It is also a favoured haunt of the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus which can carry lyme disease.

In Transcaucasia, the majority of wildcats are infested by the tick Ixodes ricinus.

Ixodes ricinus has a three-host life cycle, which usually takes 2-3 years to complete, although it can take from 1 to 6 years in extreme cases.

There is some evidence that Ixodes ricinus infected with Borrelia burgdorferi may become more efficient at infestation.

Ixodes (for example Ixodes ricinus)

Babesia divergens is an intraerythrocytic protozoan parasite, transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus.

But it is not passed from person to person; rather, its carrier is a tiny arachnid, the so-called deer tick (in the Ixodes ricinus group).

In northeastern Italy, the species is a carrier of the tick species Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus.

First described in 2004 with the temporary name IricES1, Midichloria are symbionts of the hard tick Ixodes ricinus.

In Europe, the vector is Ixodes ricinus, which is also called the sheep tick or castor bean tick.

Louping-ill is a tick-transmitted disease whose occurrence is closely related to the distribution of the primary vector, the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus.

Adults often have parasitic ticks, Ixodes ricinus, which can harbour Borrelia and thus can potentially disperse Lyme disease over a wide region.

Lice include Dermacentor pictus, Ixodes ricinus, I. persulcatus, I. crenulatus and Acarus siro.

Ticks such as Ixodes ricinus and I. hexagonus are not uncommon in foxes, and are typically found on nursing vixens and kits still in their earths.

In Europe, Lyme disease is caused by infection with one or more pathogenic European genospecies of the spirochaete B. burgdorferi sensu lato, mainly transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus.

Ixodes (Ixodes ricinus, the deer tick of Europe; Ixodes scapularis, the black legged tick of North America; Ixodes holocyclus, the paralysis tick of Australia).

Ixodes ricinus is found across Europe and into neighbouring parts of North Africa and the Middle East, extending as far north as Iceland and as far east as parts of Russia.

Those who have not experienced a close, unwilling association with wood ticks may wonder why I did not, indeed, pluck out the bloodv-minded monster upon the instant of discovery; well, let me tell you about Ixodes ricinus. . ..

The examination of preserved museum specimens has found Borrelia DNA in an infected Ixodes ricinus tick from Germany that dates back to 1884, and from an infected mouse from Cape Cod that died in 1894.

Ectoparasites carried by badgers include the fleas Paraceras melis, Chaetopsylla trichosa and Pulex irritans, the lice Trichodectes melis, the ticks Ixodes ricinus, I. canisuga, I. hexagonus, I. reduvius, I. melicula.

Sassera D, Beninati T, Bandi C, Bouman EA, Sacchi L, Fabbi M, Lo N. (2006) 'Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii', an endosymbiont of the tick Ixodes ricinus with a unique intramitochondrial lifestyle.