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  title info:
    title: Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) Parasitizing Humans
    sub title: A Global Overview
  name:
    name part: Guglielmone, Alberto A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Robbins, Richard G.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 314 p. 2 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Ticks of the family Ixodidae, commonly known as hard ticks, occur worldwide and are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of agents pathogenic to humans. Of the 729 currently recognized hard tick species, 283 (39%) have been implicated as human parasites, but the literature on these species is both immense and scattered, with the result that health professionals are often unable to determine whether a particular tick specimen, once identified, represents a species that is an actual or potential threat to its human host. In this book, two leading tick specialists provide a list of the species of Ixodidae that have been reported to feed on humans, with emphasis on their geographical distribution, principal hosts, and the tick life history stages associated with human parasitism. Also included is a discussion of 21 ixodid species that, while having been found on humans, are either not known to have actually fed or may have been misidentified. Additionally, 107 tick names that have appeared in papers on tick parasitism of humans, and that might easily confuse non-taxonomists, are shown to be invalid under the rules of zoological nomenclature. Although the species of ticks that attack humans have long attracted the attention of researchers, few comprehensive studies of these species have been attempted. By gleaning and analyzing the results of over 1,100 scientific papers published worldwide, the authors have provided an invaluable survey of hard tick parasitism that is unprecedented in its scope and detail.
  table of contents: Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Methodology -- 1. Tick species found feeding on humans -- 2. Tick species wrongly considered parasites of humans -- 3. Invalid species recorded from humans (synonyms, incertae sedis, nomina dubia, nomina nuda) -- Commens and conclusions -- References.
  note: by Alberto A. Guglielmone, Richard G. Robbins.
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Parasitology
  subject:
    topic: Animal systematics
  subject:
    topic: Animal taxonomy
  subject:
    topic: Public health
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Parasitology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
  subject:
    topic: Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  classification: QL461-599.82
  classification: 595.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319955520
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95552-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 181101
    record change date: 20191220130541.0
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