Anaplasmosis -- United States
The common name "deer tick" was applied, starting in 1979, to a tick species that was thought to be newly discovered and newly described. The scientific name associated with "deer tick" was _Ixodes dammini_. Later it was definitively shown that this was, in fact, simply a northern population of _Ixodes scapularis_, common name "blacklegged tick" that had been described in 1871. _I. dammini_ was synonymized with _I. scapularis_, discrediting the former name. There is no credible scientific
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