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____________________ transmit the causative agents of babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, relapsing fever, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

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Rickettsia rickettsii

Step-by-step explanation:

Rickettsia rickettsii is a gram negative bacteria that causes Rocky mountain spotted fever,babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, relapsing fever.

It is transmitted to humans through mites and tick bites and the infected feces of lives and tick.

They enter the body through the skin and spread to the blood stream, brain, lungs and to some vital body organs.

Some of the symptoms of theses diseases are headache, fever, rash, vomiting, nausea, pain e.t.c.

Doxycycline is use to treat theses diseases.

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