Tick Disease Transmission
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- Trans-ovarian transmission
- Infection is passed from one generation of ticks to the next through the egg
- E.g. Babesia
- Trans-stadial transmission
- Parasite or microbial organism is ingested during feeding
- Organism passed onto the next host as the tick develops (only in two and three host ticks)
- It is not passed onto the next generation through the egg