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Ticks and Rickettsial Disease: General Info, 1 - Coggle Diagram
Ticks and Rickettsial Disease: General Info
ticks of MN
Amblyomma americanum
(Lone Star tick)
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
(Brown Dog tick/kennel tick)
Ixodes scapularis
(deer tick)
Dermacentor avariabilis
(wood tick)
hard ticks
soft ticks
questing
transoverial
infection passed from arthropod parents to offspring
transstadial
infection passed fr/ 1 life stage to the next
female will not lay infected eggs
environment
treatment and control
life cycle
one host
complete entire life cycle in one host
treatments
tick dips
insecticides
multihost
consider environment
need both repellent and insecticide
diseases ticks transmit
generally called ricketsia diseases
epidemiology
may shared same vector
co-infections common
increase severity
clinical abnormalities
thrombocytopenia
polyarthropathy
diagnosis
Ab response
dosn't work for
Rickettsia rickettsia
4DX SNAP kit
therapy
all are treated with
doxycycline
prevention
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