Lyme Disease Tick
by David M. Phillips
Title
Lyme Disease Tick
Artist
David M. Phillips
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Colored Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM) of the head and mouthparts of the Deer Tick Ixodes scapularis (previously Ixodes dammini). It transmits Lyme disease to humans. At center is the barbed, skin-piercing, blood-sucking mouthpart; at lower center is the head. The female tick can feed on human blood, and in the process may transmit the bacterium Borrelia burgdorfi, cause of Lyme disease. Symptoms of this disease include skin lesions, cardiac and neurological abnormalities, and arthritis. Lyme disease is carried by I.scapularis in north and mid-west USA; and in Europe by the tick I.ricinus. Magnification unknown.
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June 30th, 2014
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