Ixodes

Ixodes

Taxobox
name = "Ixodes"


image_caption = Australian Paralysis Tick
"Ixodes holocyclus"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Acari
familia = Ixodidae
genus = "Ixodes"
genus_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Ixodes holocyclus"
"Ixodes scapularis"
"Ixodes pacificus"
"Ixodes ricinus"

"Ixodes" is a genus of hard-bodied ticks (family Ixodidae). It includes important disease vectors of animals and humans (tick-borne disease). Some ticks in this genus may transmit the pathogenic bacterium "Borrelia burgdorferi" cite book |author=Fisher, Bruce; Harvey, Richard P.; Champe, Pamela C. |title=Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series) |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |location=Hagerstown, MD |year= |pages= 334|isbn=0-7817-8215-5 |oclc= |doi= ] responsible for causing Lyme disease. Additional organisms that may be transmitted by "Ixodes" are parasites from the genus "Babesia" which cause Babesiosis, and bacteria from the genus "Ehrlichia" which cause Ehrlichiosis.

Ticks can be transmitted through handling of livestock such as cows, horses and domestic deer.fact|date=August 2008

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