"Ixodes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The largest genus of TICKS in the family IXODIDAE, containing over 200 species. Many infest humans and other mammals and several are vectors of diseases such as LYME DISEASE, tick-borne encephalitis (ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE), and KYASANUR FOREST DISEASE.
| Descriptor ID |
D018884
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.166.132.832.400.425
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| Concept/Terms |
Ixodes ricinus- Ixodes ricinus
- Castor Bean Tick
- Bean Tick, Castor
- Bean Ticks, Castor
- Castor Bean Ticks
- Tick, Castor Bean
- Ticks, Castor Bean
Ixodes scapularis- Ixodes scapularis
- Ixodes scapulari
- scapularis, Ixodes
- Black-legged Tick
- Black legged Tick
- Black-legged Ticks
- Tick, Black-legged
- Ticks, Black-legged
- Deer Tick
- Deer Ticks
- Tick, Deer
- Ticks, Deer
- Ixodes dammini
- Ixodes damminus
- dammini, Ixodes
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ixodes" by people in Profiles.
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Sack A, Naumova EN, Price LL, Xu G, Rich SM. Passive Surveillance of Human-Biting Ixodes scapularis Ticks in Massachusetts from 2015-2019. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 28; 20(5).
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Siegel EL, Olivera M, Roig EM, Perry M, Li AY, D'hers S, Elman NM, Rich SM. Spatial repellents transfluthrin and metofluthrin affect the behavior of Dermacentor variabilis, Amblyomma americanum, and Ixodes scapularis in an in vitro vertical climb assay. PLoS One. 2022; 17(11):e0269150.
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Xu G, Luo CY, Ribbe F, Pearson P, Ledizet M, Rich SM. Borrelia miyamotoi in Human-Biting Ticks, United States, 2013-2019. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 12; 27(12):3193-3195.
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Milholland MT, Xu G, Rich SM, Machtinger ET, Mullinax JM, Li AY. Pathogen Coinfections Harbored by Adult Ixodes scapularis from White-Tailed Deer Compared with Questing Adults Across Sites in Maryland, USA. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2021 02; 21(2):86-91.
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Kopsco HL, Xu G, Luo CY, Rich SM, Mather TN. Crowdsourced Photographs as an Effective Method for Large-Scale Passive Tick Surveillance. J Med Entomol. 2020 11 13; 57(6):1955-1963.
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Xu G, Wielstra B, Rich SM. Northern and southern blacklegged (deer) ticks are genetically distinct with different histories and Lyme spirochete infection rates. Sci Rep. 2020 06 24; 10(1):10289.
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Dykstra EA, Oltean HN, Kangiser D, Marsden-Haug N, Rich SM, Xu G, Lee MK, Morshed MG, Graham CB, Eisen RJ. Ecology and Epidemiology of Tickborne Pathogens, Washington, USA, 2011-2016. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 04; 26(4):648-657.
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Marcinkiewicz AL, Dupuis AP, Zamba-Campero M, Nowak N, Kraiczy P, Ram S, Kramer LD, Lin YP. Blood treatment of Lyme borreliae demonstrates the mechanism of CspZ-mediated complement evasion to promote systemic infection in vertebrate hosts. Cell Microbiol. 2019 02; 21(2):e12998.
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Xu G, Pearson P, Dykstra E, Andrews ES, Rich SM. Human-Biting Ixodes Ticks and Pathogen Prevalence from California, Oregon, and Washington. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2019 Feb; 19(2):106-114.
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Hart T, Nguyen NTT, Nowak NA, Zhang F, Linhardt RJ, Diuk-Wasser M, Ram S, Kraiczy P, Lin YP. Polymorphic factor H-binding activity of CspA protects Lyme borreliae from the host complement in feeding ticks to facilitate tick-to-host transmission. PLoS Pathog. 2018 05; 14(5):e1007106.