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Descriptor English: Ixodes
Descriptor Spanish: Ixodes
Descriptor Ixodes
Scope note: El mayor de los géneros de las GARRAPATAS, de la familia IXODIDAE que comprende más de 200 especies. Muchas infectan al hombre y a otros mamíferos y varias son vectores de enfermedades como la ENFERMEDAD DE LYME, encefalitis trasmitida por garrapatas (ENCEFALITIS TRANSMITIDA POR GARRAPATAS), y la ENFERMEDAD DEL BOSQUE DE KYASANUR.
Descriptor Portuguese: Ixodes
Descriptor French: Ixodes
Entry term(s): Bean Tick, Castor
Bean Ticks, Castor
Black legged Tick
Black-legged Tick
Black-legged Ticks
Castor Bean Tick
Castor Bean Ticks
Deer Tick
Deer Ticks
Ixode
Ixodes dammini
Ixodes damminus
Ixodes persulcatus
Ixodes ricinus
Ixodes scapulari
Ixodes scapularis
Tick, Black-legged
Tick, Castor Bean
Tick, Deer
Ticks, Black-legged
Ticks, Castor Bean
Ticks, Deer
dammini, Ixodes
scapularis, Ixodes
Tree number(s): B01.050.500.131.166.132.832.400.425
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018884
Scope note: The largest genus of TICKS in the family IXODIDAE, containing over 200 species. Many infest humans and other mammals and several are vectors of diseases such as LYME DISEASE, tick-borne encephalitis (ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE), and KYASANUR FOREST DISEASE.
Annotation: infestation: coordinate IM with TICK INFESTATIONS (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Ticks (1966-1995)
Public MeSH Note: 96
History Note: 96
DeCS ID: 32708
Unique ID: D018884
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/05/24
Revision Date: 2016/06/28
Ixodes - Preferred
Concept UI M0028243
Scope note The largest genus of TICKS in the family IXODIDAE, containing over 200 species. Many infest humans and other mammals and several are vectors of diseases such as LYME DISEASE, tick-borne encephalitis (ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE), and KYASANUR FOREST DISEASE.
Preferred term Ixodes
Entry term(s) Ixode
Ixodes ricinus - Narrower
Concept UI M0028241
Preferred term Ixodes ricinus
Entry term(s) Bean Tick, Castor
Bean Ticks, Castor
Castor Bean Tick
Castor Bean Ticks
Tick, Castor Bean
Ticks, Castor Bean
Ixodes scapularis - Narrower
Concept UI M0028242
Preferred term Ixodes scapularis
Entry term(s) Black legged Tick
Black-legged Tick
Black-legged Ticks
Deer Tick
Deer Ticks
Ixodes dammini
Ixodes damminus
Ixodes scapulari
Tick, Black-legged
Tick, Deer
Ticks, Black-legged
Ticks, Deer
dammini, Ixodes
scapularis, Ixodes
Ixodes persulcatus - Narrower
Concept UI M0028244
Preferred term Ixodes persulcatus



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