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	"Ticks" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
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				Blood-sucking acarid parasites of the order Ixodida comprising two families: the softbacked ticks (ARGASIDAE) and hardbacked ticks (IXODIDAE). Ticks are larger than their relatives, the MITES. They penetrate the skin of their host by means of highly specialized, hooked mouth parts and feed on its blood. Ticks attack all groups of terrestrial vertebrates. In humans they are responsible for many TICK-BORNE DISEASES, including the transmission of ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TULAREMIA; BABESIOSIS; AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; and RELAPSING FEVER. (From Barnes, Invertebrate Zoology, 5th ed, pp543-44)
    
			 
				
				
					
						| Descriptor ID | D013987 |  
						| MeSH Number(s) | B01.050.500.131.166.132.832 |  
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 | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |  | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |  | 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |  | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |  | 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |  | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |  | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |  | 2024 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 
 
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								Scorza AV, McMinn RJ, Chacon A, Lamb MM, Medrano RE, Harris EK, Alvarez D, Lopez MR, Arias K, Anaya J, Olson D, Ebel GD, Lappin MR. Detection of selected vector-borne pathogens in domestic animals, ectoparasites, and their owners in a rural community in Southwest Guatemala. Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports. 2025 Jan; 57:101185.
								Tamari N, Ernst KC, Enriquez AJ, Diuk-Wasser MA, Fernandez MP, Berry K, Hayden MH. Urban tick exposure on Staten Island is higher in pet owners. PLoS One. 2024; 19(11):e0311891.
								Russell JN, Lee MK, Uyaguari-Diaz MI, Sies AN, Suchan DM, Hsiao W, Fraser E, Morshed MG, Cameron ADS. Whole-genome sequencing of Western Canadian Borrelia spp. collected from diverse tick and animal hosts reveals short-lived local genotypes interspersed with longer-lived continental genotypes. Microb Genom. 2024 Aug; 10(8).
								Frank MG, Weaver G, Raabe V. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus for Clinicians-Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, and Prevention. Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 May; 30(5):854-863.
								Frank MG, Weaver G, Raabe V. Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus for Clinicians-Virology, Pathogenesis, and Pathology. Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 May; 30(5):847-853.
								Ho BM, Davis HE, Forrester JD, Sheele JM, Haston T, Sanders L, Lee MC, Lareau S, Caudell M, Davis CB. Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Tick-Borne Illness in the United States. Wilderness Environ Med. 2021 Dec; 32(4):474-494.
								Schiller ZA, Rudolph MJ, Toomey JR, Ejemel M, LaRochelle A, Davis SA, Lambert HS, Kern A, Tardo AC, Souders CA, Peterson E, Cannon RD, Ganesa C, Fazio F, Mantis NJ, Cavacini LA, Sullivan-Bolyai J, Hu LT, Embers ME, Klempner MS, Wang Y. Blocking Borrelia burgdorferi transmission from infected ticks to nonhuman primates with a human monoclonal antibody. J Clin Invest. 2021 06 01; 131(11).
								Samuels DS, Lybecker MC, Yang XF, Ouyang Z, Bourret TJ, Boyle WK, Stevenson B, Drecktrah D, Caimano MJ. Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics. Curr Issues Mol Biol. 2021; 42:223-266.
								Wille M, Harvey E, Shi M, Gonzalez-Acuña D, Holmes EC, Hurt AC. Sustained RNA virome diversity in Antarctic penguins and their ticks. ISME J. 2020 07; 14(7):1768-1782.
								Carriveau A, Poole H, Thomas A. Lyme Disease. Nurs Clin North Am. 2019 06; 54(2):261-275. | 
																	
																		
																			
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