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Keywords: ticks, family Argasidae or soft-bodied ticks, Ornithodoros relapsing fever, Argas persicus, Otobius megnini spinose ear tick, Ornithodoros and relapsing fever, Borrelia, Ornithodoros turicata, O. talaje, O. parkeri, O. moubata, O. erraticus, O. marocanus, family Ixodidae hard-bodied ticks, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Rickettsia rickettsia, Haemaphysalis leporis-palustris, interference between rickettsial strains, role of ticks in the biological survival mechanisms of Rickettsia rickettsia, tick-borne hemorrhagic fevers, Crimean hemorrhagic fever, Uzbekistan hemorrhagic fever, Hyalomma anatolicum,

tick-borne encphalitides, resistance in ticks to insecticides, mesostigmatic mites, Dermanyssus gallinae, Bdellonyssus sylviarum, B. bursa, eastern equine encephalomyelitis or St. Louis encephalitis, western equine encephalitis, Ornithonyssus bacoli, Allodermanyssus sanguineus parasite of house mice, trombidiform mites, taxonomy of chiggers, Trombicula autumnalis, T. akamushi, T. deliensis, chiggers as vectors, scrub typhus, sarcoptiform mites, itch mites, Sarcoptes scabiei, oribatid mites, Moniezia expansa