Genus of ticks
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.
Species.
These species are recognised within the genus "Ixodes":
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