Ticks

An online reference for healthcare providers

Pictures of the most common ticks that bite people.

• Anaplasmosis
• Babesiosis
• Ehrlichiosis
• Lyme disease
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever

• Tickborne Disease Surveillance Data Summary, 2017
• Asian longhorned ticks—A new tick in the United States
• Tick Surveillance Guidance
• Lyme and Other Tickborne Diseases– Digital Press Kit
• Emerging Tickborne Diseases– Public Health Grand Rounds
• Trends in Tickborne Diseases– HHS joint webinar
• Agents, Clinical Features, and Surveillance – HHS joint webinar! Novel and Emerging Tickborne Diseases
• Don’t Let a Tick Make You Sick!Cdc-pdf[PDF – 1 page]  – Tick Bite Prevention Comic for Summer Campers
• It’s Open Season on Ticks!Cdc-pdf[PDF – 2 pages] – Hunter Safety Fact Sheet

• Doxycycline for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: Safe for All AgesExternal
• Recognizing Lyme CarditisExternal
• Tickborne Rickettsial Infections Among Travelers to AfricaExternal
• Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness — When a Bull’s-Eye Rash Isn’t Lyme DiseaseExternal
• PCR for Diagnosis of Lyme Disease: Is It Useful?External
• Testing for Lyme Disease: Follow the StepsExternal