| Autor: |
Hall JE; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506., Amrine JW Jr, Gais RD, Kolanko VP, Hagenbuch BE, Gerencser VF, Clark SM |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of medical entomology [J Med Entomol] 1991 Jan; Vol. 28 (1), pp. 186-9. |
| DOI: |
10.1093/jmedent/28.1.186 |
| Abstrakt: |
In 32 collections, two larvae, 33 nymphs, and one adult female Ixodes cookei Packard were collected from humans in West Virginia from August 1987 to May 1990. Most were attached. The ticks were found in 14 counties and were the most abundant Ixodes found biting humans. One nymphal I. cookei was removed from the left axilla of a 39-yr-old woman who lives and works in Monongalia and Marion counties, W. Va. The bite was the center of an expanding erythematous lesion reaching 4 cm in diameter, clearing centrally, and typical of erythema migrans. This association and the near absence of Ixodes dammini Spielman, Clifford, Piesman & Corwin from the state suggests the possibility that I. cookei may be an important vector of Lyme borreliosis in West Virginia. In five separate collections, five nymphal Ixodes dentatus Marx were removed from humans in four counties, implicating this species as a potential minor vector of Lyme borreliosis in West Virginia. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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