Taber's Medical Dictionary
Asian longhorned tick
A tick endemic in eastern Asia in the Ixodes family, scientific name Haemaphysalis longicornis, and now distributed globally. Its bite can transmit diseases to humans such as Lyme disease, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and viral hemorrhagic fever. Known commonly as the Bush tick.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Asian Longhorned Tick." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/775843/all/Asian_longhorned_tick.
Asian longhorned tick. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/775843/all/Asian_longhorned_tick. Accessed April 26, 2025.
Asian longhorned tick. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/775843/all/Asian_longhorned_tick
Asian Longhorned Tick [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 April 26]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/775843/all/Asian_longhorned_tick.
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