b.The eight-legged immature form of certain arachnids, such as ticks and mites. [Middle Englishnimphe, from Old French, from Latinnympha, from Greeknumphē.] nymph′al(nĭm′fəl)adj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton...
The nymphal stage of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), is responsible for most transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiologic agent of Lyme disease, to humans in North America. From 2010 to fall of 2012, we compared two commonly used techniques, flagging and ...
human-tick exposure65, which may lead to a higher incidence of tick-borne diseases. We also observed markedly low baselineI. ricinusabundance in the highly fragmented forest with a low proportion of forest-covering area (La Tour de Salvagny A;\({p}_{Forest}\) = 6.5%), possibly due...
Blacklegged tickDisease riskHost-seeking behaviorIxodes scapularisLyme borreliosisLyme diseaseTick-borne diseaseMost people who contract Lyme borreliosis in the eastern United States (US) acquire infection from the bite of the nymphal life stage of the vector tick Ixodes scapularis, which is present ...
blacklegged tickBorrelia burgdorferiIxodes scapularislandscape epidemiologyLyme diseasetick ecologyMore than 19,000 human cases of Lyme disease (LD) are reported each year in the United States. Lyme disease cases occur when humans are exposed to the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi through the bite of ...