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wood tick

Etymology: AS, wudu + ME, tike

a hardshelled tick of the Ixodidae family and a natural reservoir of Rickettsia rickettsii. One species of wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni, is the principal vector in western North America of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, transmitted by R. rickettsii.

wood tick

see dermacentorandersoni.

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