Adult deer tick

Case contributed by Mark Thurston
Diagnosis not applicable
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Photo of the adult deer tick (ixodes scapularis), the vector for Lyme disease.

Photo by Scott Bauer. See case discussion for full attribution.

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Author: Photo by Scott Bauer.

Modification: square crop

Original file: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adult_deer_tick.jpg

License: This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the Agricultural Research Service, the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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