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Ticks of the family Ixodidae, commonly known as hard ticks, occur worldwide and are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of agents pathogenic to humans. Of the 729 currently recognized hard tick species, 283 (39%) have been implicated as human parasites, but the literature on these species is both immense and scattered, with the result that health professionals are often unable to determine whether a particular tick specimen, once identified, represents a species that is an actual or potential threat to its human host. In this book, two leading tick specialists provide a list of the species of Ixodidae that have been reported to feed on humans, with emphasis on their geographical distribution, principal hosts, and the tick life history stages associated with human parasitism. Also included is a discussion of 21 ixodid species that, while having been found on humans, are either not known to have actually fed or may have been misidentified. Additionally, 107 tick names that have appeared in papers on tick parasitism of humans, and that might easily confuse non-taxonomists, are shown to be invalid under the rules of zoological nomenclature. Although the species of ticks that attack humans have long attracted the attention of researchers, few comprehensive studies of these species have been attempted. By gleaning and analyzing the results of over 1,100 scientific papers published worldwide, the authors have provided an invaluable survey of hard tick parasitism that is unprecedented in its scope and detail.

Ticks. --- Ixodida --- Ixodides --- Ixodoidea --- Metastigmata --- Parasitiformes --- Acarology --- Entomology. --- Medical parasitology. --- Epidemiology. --- Parasitology. --- Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Public Health. --- Insects --- Zoology --- Diseases --- Public health --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Medical sciences --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Parasites --- Animal systematics. --- Animal taxonomy. --- Public health. --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Animal classification --- Animal systematics --- Animal taxonomy --- Classification --- Systematic zoology --- Systematics (Zoology) --- Taxonomy, Animal --- Zoological classification --- Zoological systematics --- Zoological taxonomy --- Biology --- Animals

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Hard ticks (family Ixodidae) are obligately blood-feeding ectoparasites of all classes of vertebrates except fishes.  They occur worldwide and are preeminent among hematophagous arthropods for the variety of infectious agents that they transmit to humans and other animals.  Because hard ticks have long been a focus of medical and veterinary research, the literature on this group is both voluminous and diffuse, with the result that those seeking information on a particular species are often at a loss as to where to turn.  This book addresses that problem.  Working as a team, six leading authorities on the Ixodidae have summarized current, essential information for every one of the world’s 700+ hard tick species.  Under each species name, readers will find a discussion of the original taxonomic description, followed by sections on type depositories, known life history stages, distribution by zoogeographic region and ecoregion, principal and exceptional hosts, and human parasitism.  Each species account concludes with a list of salient references and, where necessary, remarks on any unresolved issues warranting further research or important species-specific information, such as introductions into regions outside a species’ natural range or collections from novel hosts.  No similar synopsis of the world’s hard tick species has ever been attempted.

Parasitiformes. --- Ticks. --- Ixodida --- Ixodides --- Ixodoidea --- Metastigmata --- Gamasida --- Holothyrina --- Mesostigmata --- Parasitiform mites --- Life sciences. --- Parasitology. --- Animal ecology. --- Invertebrates. --- Entomology. --- Life Sciences. --- Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Animal Ecology. --- Parasitiformes --- Acarology --- Mites --- Medical parasitology. --- Animals --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Medical sciences --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Invertebrata --- Insects --- Parasites --- Animal systematics. --- Animal taxonomy. --- Biology --- Animal classification --- Animal systematics --- Animal taxonomy --- Classification --- Systematic zoology --- Systematics (Zoology) --- Taxonomy, Animal --- Zoological classification --- Zoological systematics --- Zoological taxonomy