Ixodes persulcatus


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Ix·o·des per·sul·ca·'tus

the taiga tick, a Eurasian species that is a vector for Russian spring-summer encephalitis and Lyme disease.
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Borrelia miyamotoi is an emerging pathogen first identified in Ixodes persulcatus ticks and rodents from Japan in 1994 (1,2).
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(3) discovered a novel relapsing fever spirochete in the hard-bodied (ixodid) tick Ixodes persulcatus and named it Borrelia miyamotoi.
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