"Dermacentor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A widely distributed genus of TICKS, in the family IXODIDAE, including a number that infest humans and other mammals. Several are vectors of diseases such as TULAREMIA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; COLORADO TICK FEVER; and ANAPLASMOSIS.
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D003870
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.166.132.832.400.200
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dermacentor" by people in Profiles.
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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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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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Caporale DA, Rich SM, Spielman A, Telford SR, Kocher TD. Discriminating between Ixodes ticks by means of mitochondrial DNA sequences. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 1995 Dec; 4(4):361-5.