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| ID | DOID:4109 |
| Name | tick infestation |
| Definition | A parasitic ectoparasitic infectious disease that involves parasitic infestation of blood feeding ticks of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae on animals and humans. Ticks are vectors of a number diseases, including Lyme disease, Q fever, Colorado tick fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and tick-borne meningoencephalitis, as well as anaplasmosis in cattle and canine jaundice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick, http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Ticks.htm |
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