Engorged Lone Star Tick
This photograph depicts an engorged female lone star tick Amblyomma americanum. An Ixodes or hard tick, A. americanus is found through the southeast and south-central states, and has been shown to transmit the spirochete, Borrelia lonestari, the pathogen responsible for causing a Lyme disease-like rash known as Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI). Representatives from all three of its life stages aggressively bite people in the southern Research indicates that live spirochetes are observed in only 1-3% of specimens.
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