Ixodes
Australian Paralysis Tick Ixodes holocyclus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Acari
Family:	Ixodidae
Genus:	Ixodes
Species include
Ixodes holocyclus Ixodes marxi Ixodes myrmecobii Ixodes scapularis Ixodes pacificus Ixodes ricinus

Ixodes is a genus of hard-bodied ticks (family Ixodidae). It includes important disease vectors of animals and humans (tick-borne disease). Some ticks in this genus may transmit the pathogenic bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi^[1] responsible for causing Lyme disease. Additional organisms that may be transmitted by Ixodes are parasites from the genus Babesia which cause Babesiosis, and bacteria from the related genera Ehrlichia which cause Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasma which cause Anaplasmosis.

Ticks can be transmitted through handling of livestock such as cows, horses and domestic deer.^{[citation needed]}

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