| ixodes | <zoology> A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Like birdlime; birdlime + form. (30 Mar 1998) |
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| Ixodes bicornis | A species, found in Mexico, whose bite causes fever and extreme malaise. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes cookei | A species that is a vector of Powassan virus in Canada. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes dammini | A species that is a vector of Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) and human babesiosis (Babesia microti) in the U.S. Bites causing Lyme disease in humans are from nymphal ticks about the size of a pencil point, infected with B. Burgdorferi from white-footed field mice. Adult ticks complete their two-year life cycle feeding on deer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes holocyclus | A species in Australia that infests the kangaroo and transmits a paralytic disease to young cattle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes pacificus | The California black-legged tick, a species that is the vector of Lyme disease in the western U.S. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes persulcatus | A Eurasian species that is a vector for Russian spring-summer encephalitis and Lyme disease, and is associated with the taiga forest of the area formerly known as the USSR. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes pilosus | The paralysis tick, a species that infests sheep in South Africa and causes paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes ricinus | The castor bean tick, a Euroasian species that infests cattle, sheep, and wild animals, and transmits the virus of louping ill, the piroplasm Babesia divergens, the central European tick-borne encephalitis virus, and the Lyme disease bacterium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes scapularis | The black-legged or shoulder tick, a species found on animals in the southern and eastern U.S.; capable of inflicting a painful bite to humans, and of being a vector of Lyme disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ixodes spinipalpis | A species parasitic on wild rodents in British Columbia and the vector of Powassan virus in mice of the genus Peromyscus. (05 Mar 2000) |