Lone star tick

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Lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum). This tick is found through the southeast and south-central United States. It is the vector for the spirochete bacteria Borrelia lonestari, which causing a Lyme disease-like rash known as southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI).

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