There's a lot of information out there about Lyme disease, and it's important to distinguish fact from fiction. Here's what you should know.

Dermacentor andersoni is found in the Rocky Mountain states and in southwestern Canada. The life cycle of this tick may require up to 2 to 3 years for completion. Adult wood ticks feed primarily ...

More (Dermacentor andersoni) an agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) clinging to the tip of a green plant, image courtesy CDC/Dr Christopher Paddock, 2008.

Much like Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is spread through ticks, specifically the American Dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis), the Rocky Mountain Wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) and ...

More information: Elizabeth A. Freeman et al, Surveillance of Rocky Mountain wood ticks (Dermacentor andersoni) and American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) in Colorado, Ticks and Tick-borne ...

Other ticks that transmit the disease outside of Michigan are the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and the brown dog tick, Rhipecephalus sanguineus.

In the West it is carried by the wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni), in the East by the dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis). But only one in 500 ticks is infected.

Dermacentor Andersoni Dermatobia hominus Diphyllobothrium latum Fasciola herpatica Ixodes Scapularis Hirudo medicinalis Pediculus humanus capitis Pulex Irritans Schistosoma mansoni Taenia solium ...

Other ticks that transmit the disease outside of Michigan are the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and the brown dog tick, Rhipecephalus sanguineus.

The bacteria Rickettsia rickettsii that causes RMSF is transmitted by the dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) in the eastern United States and by the wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni) in the Rocky ...

TICK paralysis, as reviewed by Abbott 1, is a disease affecting man, cattle, sheep and dogs in many parts of the world. Here, in the Pacific north-west, the causative tick is Dermacentor andersoni ...