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Ixodes

Ixodes is a genus of hard-bodied ticks (family Ixodidae). It includes important disease vectors of animals and humans (tick-borne disease), and some species (notably Ixodes holocyclus) inject toxins that can cause paralysis. Some ticks in this genus may transmit the pathogenic bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi responsible for causing Lyme disease. Additional organisms that may be transmitted by Ixodes are parasites from the genus Babesia, which cause babesiosis, and bacteria from the related genus Anaplasma, which cause anaplasmosis. These species are recognised within the genus Ixodes:

[ "Lyme disease", "Borrelia burgdorferi", "Tick", "Arachnid Vectors", "Amblyomma coelebs", "Dipodomys californicus", "Ixodes ventalloi", "Ixodes muris" ]
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