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Flea Infestations +  
leech infestation 
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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. (DO)
tungiasis 

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: tick infestations
Primary IDs: MESH:D013984
Xrefs: EFO:0007508
Definition Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick "DO" "DO", http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Ticks.htm "DO" "DO"

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