"Ixodes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The largest genus of TICKS in the family IXODIDAE, containing over 200 species. Many infest humans and other mammals and several are vectors of diseases such as LYME DISEASE, tick-borne encephalitis (ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE), and KYASANUR FOREST DISEASE.
MeSH Number(s)
B01.050.500.131.166.132.832.400.425
Concept/Terms
Ixodes ricinus- Ixodes ricinus
- ricinus, Ixodes
- Castor Bean Tick
- Bean Tick, Castor
- Bean Ticks, Castor
- Castor Bean Ticks
- Tick, Castor Bean
- Ticks, Castor Bean
Ixodes scapularis- Ixodes scapularis
- Ixodes scapulari
- scapulari, Ixodes
- scapularis, Ixodes
- Deer Tick
- Deer Ticks
- Tick, Deer
- Ticks, Deer
- Ixodes dammini
- Ixodes damminus
- dammini, Ixodes
- damminus, Ixodes
- Black-legged Tick
- Black legged Tick
- Black-legged Ticks
- Tick, Black-legged
- Ticks, Black-legged
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Ixodes".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Ixodes".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ixodes" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Ixodes" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Ixodes" by people in Profiles.
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Identification of Hard Ticks in the United States: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Pathologists. Am J Dermatopathol. 2022 Mar 01; 44(3):163-169.
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Proficiency at Tick Identification by Pathologists and Clinicians Is Poor. Am J Dermatopathol. 2022 Feb 01; 44(2):111-114.
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Active surveillance of ticks in peri-domestic areas of Indiana, Midwest United States. J Vector Borne Dis. 2021 Oct-Dec; 58(4):352-358.
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Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank, United States, 2015-2020. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 12; 26(12):3099-3101.
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Cost effective, experimentally robust differential-expression analysis for human/mammalian, pathogen and dual-species transcriptomics. Microb Genom. 2020 01; 6(1).
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A probable case of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) acquired in England, July 2019. Euro Surveill. 2019 Nov; 24(47).
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Ticks elicit variable fibrinogenolytic activities upon feeding on hosts with different immune backgrounds. Sci Rep. 2017 03 16; 7:44593.
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Characterization of the early local immune response to Ixodes ricinus tick bites in human skin. Exp Dermatol. 2017 03; 26(3):263-269.
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Lyme borreliosis. Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2016 12 15; 2:16090.
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Emerging Cases of Powassan Virus Encephalitis in New England: Clinical Presentation, Imaging, and Review of the Literature. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Mar 15; 62(6):707-713.