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Tristan R Grams^#¹, Blaine A Mathison^#^{1

2}, Donald Roseberry³, Marc Roger Couturier^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
² Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
³ Christus Health, Winnsboro, Texas, USA.
⁴ ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Tristan R Grams et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2024.

. 2024 Mar 13;62(3):e0126123.

doi: 10.1128/jcm.01261-23. Epub 2024 Mar 13.

Tristan R Grams^#¹, Blaine A Mathison^#^{1

2}, Donald Roseberry³, Marc Roger Couturier^{1

4}

¹ Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
² Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
³ Christus Health, Winnsboro, Texas, USA.
⁴ ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

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Keywords: Otobius; arthropods; ectoparasite; parasitology; soft tick; spinose ear tick.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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