The meaning of WESTERN BLACK-LEGGED TICK is a tick of the genus Ixodes (I. pacificus) that is found in the western U.S. and British Columbia and is a vector of several diseases (such as Lyme disease) —called also black-legged tick.
In the western United States, Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls (Acari: Ixodidae) is the primary vector of the agents causing Lyme disease and granulocytic anaplasmosis in humans. The geographic distribution of the tick is associated with climatic variables that include temperature, precipitation, and...
Nymphs of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus, were found on the trunks of trees during spring and summer in northwestern California. In a woodland-grass habitat, large- and medium-sized (> 130 cm. and 80 - 130 cm in circumference, respectively), moss-covered oak (Quercus spp...
Vector competence of Ixodes pacificus and Dermacentor occidentalis (Acari: Ixodidae) for various isolates of Lyme disease spirochetes. The vector competence of the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls, and the Pacific Coast tick, Dermacentor occidentalis Marx, for the... RS La...
The relationship of immature western black-legged ticks, Ixodes pacificus Cooley and Kohls, to the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis Baird and Girard, and to the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, was investigated in chaparral and woodland-grass habitats in northern California ...
BlackleggedReptilesParasitismWorldwide, at least 116 species of ticks are known to parasitize reptiles (Barnard and Durden 2000). For some of these tick species, including members of the Holarctic Ixodes ricinus complex (including I. pacificus, I. persulcatus, I. ricinus, and I. scapularis), ...
2.Here we use MaxEnt to model spatial patterns and differences in host﹕eeking phenology of the western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in California using spatially and temporally refined adult tick occurrence data and similarly refined climate and environmental data. We empirically validate the ...
In the western United States, the western blacklegged tick, Ixodes (I.) pacificus Cooley & Kohls, is the primary vector to humans of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (Burgdorfer et al., 1985; Lane et al., 1994). It is also an important vector of Anaplasma ...
Pittman W, Pollock NB, Taylor EN (2013) Effect of host lizard anemia on host choice and feeding rate of larval western black-legged ticks ( Ixodes pacificus ). Exp Appl Acarol 61:471–479 View ArticlePittman W, Pollock NB, Taylor EN (2013). Effect of host lizard anemia on host choice...
Lane RS: Treatment of clothing with a permethrin spray for personal protection against the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae). Exp Appl Acarol 1989, 6: 343–352.Lane RS. Treatment of clothing with a permethrin spray for personal protection against the western black ...