WormMine: DiseaseOntology DOID:4109 tick infestation Disease Ontology

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Disease Ontology

Identifier	Name	Description
DOID:4	disease	A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.
DOID:0050117	disease by infectious agent	A disease that is the consequence of the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions.
DOID:1398	parasitic infectious disease	A disease by infectious agent that is carried out by a parasite which by definition is a pathogen that simultaneously injures and derives sustenance from its host.
DOID:4110	parasitic ectoparasitic infectious disease	A parasitic infectious disease that is caused by organisms that live primarily on the surface of the host.
DOID:4109	tick infestation	A parasitic ectoparasitic infectious disease that involves parasitic infestation of blood feeding ticks of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae on animals and humans. Ticks are vectors of a number diseases, including Lyme disease, Q fever, Colorado tick fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and tick-borne meningoencephalitis, as well as anaplasmosis in cattle and canine jaundice.

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