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For The First Time In Over 90 Years, The Rare Pink Worm Lizard Has Emerged From Its Hiding Place Beneath The Ground In Somalia
The worm lizard is a subspecies of A.s. parkeri, a member of the amphisbaenians, which are a group of legless lizards that resemble earthworms. Like earthworms, they adapted to have smaller eyes ...
Forbes1y
It’s Tick Time! What To Know About The Growing Risk Of Infections From Ticks
STARI - (Southern tick-associated rash illness) - Lone Star tick. Expanding, Lyme-like rash Rickettsia parkeri - Gulf coast tick, recently spotted in Arizona. It has an eschar (scab), as an early ...
Baylor College of Medicine1y
Laboratory of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
In Texas, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and another emerging SFGR pathogen, Rickettsia parkeri, are known to cause human disease and likely represent a growing public health problem. We recently ...
Natural History Museum%2c London4y
Acarological E-Reprint Library
Zhu, X.X., Zhang, W.Y. & Oliver, J.H. Jr. (1995) Immunocytochemical mapping of FMRFamide-like peptides in the argasid tick Ornithodoros parkeri and the ixodid tick Dermacentor variabilis. Experimental ...