Abstract Tick-borne illnesses have been on the rise in United States, with reported cases up sharply past two decades. In this literature review, we synthesize available research relationship between vegetation and tick abundance for four species northeastern States that are of potential medical importance to humans. The blacklegged (Ixodes scapularis) (Say; Acari: Ixodidae) is found be positiv...

Hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are important obligatory blood feeding external parasites of human and animals. There have been a lot of studies on taxonomy of Iranian ixodidae. On the basis of morphological features found basically in adult male. There are problems in tick identification due to their intraspecific variations and morphological changes of the surface body of ticks after blood feedi...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii infection. R. rickettsii can be transmitted to mammals, including humans, through the bite of an infected hard-bodied tick of the family Ixodidae. Since the R. rickettsii genome contains only one cold-shock-like protein and given the essential nature of cold-shock proteins in other bacteria, the structure of the cold-shock-like pro...