tick-borne infectious disease
MONDO:0025294Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names tick-borne infectious disease yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Bacterial, viral, or parasitic diseases transmitted to humans and animals by the bite of infected ticks. The families Ixodidae and Argasidae contain many bloodsucking species that are important pests of man and domestic birds and mammals and probably exceed all other arthropods in the number and variety of disease agents they transmit. Many of the tick-borne diseases are zoonotic.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0025294), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of