Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) Parasitizing Humans A Global Overview /

• Main Authors: Guglielmone, Alberto A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Robbins, Richard G. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Entomology.; Parasitology.; Animal systematics.; Animal taxonomy.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Public Health.

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 i...

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.