Significados de hematophagous arthropods en inglés

Ticks are obligate hematophagous arthropods of significant importance to human and veterinary medicine.

Alphaviruses alternate between infection of hematophagous arthropods and higher vertebrates.

The genus Rickettsia includes obligate intracellular bacteria transmitted by several hematophagous arthropods such as ticks, fleas and sucking lice.