A single tick species, Amblyomma americanum, transmits ehrlichiosis from Ehrlichia chaffeensis and E. ewingii, tularemia, Heartland virus, Bourbon virus, STARI, and is the principal cause of alpha-gal syndrome in the United States. No other North American tick carries a comparable disease portfolio.
Despite expanding overlap with Lyme disease in the southeastern United States, Amblyomma americanum (the lone star tick) does not transmit…
Amblyomma americanum, the lone star tick, is named for the single white spot on the female's scutum. Unlike Ixodes ticks, which sit and…
Amblyomma cajennense (sensu lato) - now recognized as a complex of six closely related species - is the principal Latin American vector of…
Southern tick-associated rash illness produces an expanding red rash that looks indistinguishable from early Lyme disease, but it follows…
Amblyomma maculatum was once confined to a coastal band along the Gulf of Mexico. Established populations now reach Connecticut and the…
Dermacentor occidentalis transmits Rickettsia 364D (now classified as Rickettsia rickettsii subsp. californica), the cause of Pacific…