Image of Ixodes persulcatus Schulze 1930
Description:
This 1975 transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed the presence of Russian spring-summer encephalitis (RSSE) virus virions in this tissue sample. As a tick-borne encephalitis, RSSE is an arbovirus, which means that its transmitted through the bite of an infected Ixodes persulcatus tick.
Created: 1975
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Chelicerata (chelicerates)
- Arachnida (arachnids)
- Acari (mites)
- Parasitiformes (parasitiform)
- Ixodida (ticks)
- Ixodoidea
- Ixodidae (hard ticks)
- Ixodes
- Ixodes persulcatus
- Panarthropoda
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