Disorder: Ticks and Tick Control in dogs and cats
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|Ticks are arthropods, closely related to scorpions, spiders, and mites. They are skin parasites of dogs and cats, feeding only on the |
|blood of their hosts. Ticks have a great potential to act as carriers of a number of diseases. Organisms that transmit agents of disease |
|are known as "vectors." When the tick bites the host animal, it can transmit a variety of disease-causing organisms (pathogens) including|
|protozoa, bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, and other agents. The resulting diseases are known by the broad term of "tick-borne diseases." |
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|Definition |
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|Dogs and cats may be parasitized by hard ticks of the family Ixodidae. These ectoparasites which feed only on the blood of their hosts |
|are arthropods, closely related to scorpions, spiders and mites. Ticks have a great potential to act as vectors of protozoa, fungi, |
|bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, filarial nematodes and spirochetes. |
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