Felz M W, Durden L A, Oliver J H
Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912, USA.
J Parasitol. 1996 Jun;82(3):505-8.
From 1990 through 1995, 913 ticks removed from 460 human patients in Georgia or South Carolina were identified and recorded. The majority of these specimens (758, 83.0%) were lone star ticks, Amblyomma americanum. One hundred and four (11.4%) American dog ticks Dermacentor variabilis, 36 (3.9%) blacklegged ticks Ixodes scapularis, 9 (1.0%) Gulf coast ticks Amblyomma maculatum, and 6 (0.7%) brown dog ticks Rhipicephalus sanguineus were also recovered. All active stages (larvae, nymphs, and adults) of A. americanum were represented, whereas nymphs and adults of D. variabilis and I. scapularis and only adults of A. maculatum and R. sanguineus were recorded. Compared with data published for other regions in the U.S.A., A. americanum was a much more prevalent parasite of humans in the current survey. Only 1 (3%) of the I. scapularis collected was a nymph. Because these tick species are vectors of zoonotic pathogens or cause tick paralysis in humans, the data have epidemiological significance.
1990年至1995年期间，对从佐治亚州或南卡罗来纳州的460名人类患者身上采集的913只蜱虫进行了鉴定和记录。这些标本中的大多数（758只，占83.0%）是孤星蜱，即美洲钝眼蜱。还发现了104只（占11.4%）美洲犬蜱，变异革蜱；36只（占3.9%）黑脚蜱，肩突硬蜱；9只（占1.0%）海湾沿岸蜱，斑点钝眼蜱；以及6只（占0.7%）棕犬蜱，血红扇头蜱。美洲钝眼蜱的所有活跃阶段（幼虫、若虫和成虫）均有发现，而变异革蜱和肩突硬蜱仅记录到若虫和成虫，斑点钝眼蜱和血红扇头蜱仅记录到成虫。与美国其他地区公布的数据相比，在本次调查中，美洲钝眼蜱是人类中更为普遍的寄生虫。所采集的肩突硬蜱中只有1只（占3%）是若虫。由于这些蜱虫种类是人畜共患病原体的传播媒介或可导致人类蜱瘫痪，这些数据具有流行病学意义。
