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Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) as ectoparasites of Brazilian wild birds and their association with rickettsial diseases [PDF]

, 2016
Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) are obligatory hematophagous ectoparasites of a variety of vertebrate hosts and play an important role in the transmission and ecology of infectious pathogens causing diseases in humans and animals worldwide.
Ogrzewalska, Maria, Pinter, Adriano
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Ticks from the Brazilian Amazon: Species, Distribution and Host-Relations [PDF]

, 2020
Ticks are important ectoparasites and can transmit a wide variety of pathogens to animals and humans worldwide. These ectoparasites are the most important vectors of diseases causing pathogens in domestic and wild animals, and the second for man.
Costa, Francisco B., Faccini, João Luiz H., Gianizella, Sérgio L., Labruna, Marcelo B., Luz, Hermes R., Martins, Thiago F., Muñoz-Leal, Sebastián   +6 more
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Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from the state of Rondônia, western Amazon, Brazil

, 2016
From 2000 to 2005, we made several scientific expeditions to determine the ixodid tick fauna of the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Ticks were collected from vegetation, from wild and domestic animal hosts, and from humans.
M. Labruna, Luis Marcelo A. Camargo, Flávio A. Terrassini, Fernando Ferreira, T. Schumaker, E. P. Camargo   +5 more
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Molecular detection of rickettsial agents of hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from wild birds of Panama

Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2020
Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from wild birds in Panama were tested for the presence of tick-borne pathogens as Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Bartonella, Borrelia, Hepatozoon sp., and Babesia. Overall 124 ticks were found in 57 birds belonging to
S. Bermúdez, L. Domínguez, Isis Ochoa, Jonathan G Oliveira, E. R. Sampaio de Lemos, Bernardo Castillo, Diorene Smith, Jorge M. Herrera, M. Ogrzewalska   +8 more
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Identificación de ectoparásitos en Oso melero (Tamandua tetradactyla), Estado Lara, Venezuela [PDF]

, 2013
RESUMENObjetivo. Identificar especies de ectoparásitos encontrados parasitando naturalmente un Oso melero, el cual fue encontrado muriendo en una vía cercana al pueblo de Bobare, estado Lara, Venezuela. Materiales y métodos.
Forlano R, María, Gallardo Y, Johanmary, Mujica L, Franklin, Rodríguez L, José   +3 more
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New tick records with notes on rickettsial infection from the wildlife of the state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
This work aimed to report ticks infesting the wildlife among 15 municipalities of the state of Espírito Santo between 2016 and 2021, within the Atlantic Forest biome of southeastern Brazil. A total of 576 tick specimens (187 males, 56 females, 149 nymphs,
Igor da Cunha Lima Acosta, Isaias Roveri Garcia, Hermes Ribeiro Luz, Maria Carolina de Azevedo Serpa, Thiago Fernandes Martins, Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Marcelo B. Labruna   +6 more
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Espécies de carrapatos relatadas no Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul. [PDF]

, 2012
Carrapatos são ectoparasitos do filo Arthropoda, classe Arachnida, ordem Acari e subordem Ixodida. Parasitam a grande maioria dos animais vertebrados e apresentam uma ampla distribuição geográfica.
ALMEIDA, R. F. C. de, ANDREOTTI, R., BARROS, J. C., GARCIA, M. V., MATIAS, J.   +4 more
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Patógenos intracelulares em carrapatos do Cerrado e Mata Atlântica: vírus e riquétsias [PDF]

, 2017
In Brazil, most arthropod-transmitted viruses (arboviruses) belong to Flavivirus genus, being tick-transmitted less studied than insect-transmitted ones.
Pascoal, Jamile de Oliveira
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Dichotomous key to larvae of the genus Amblyomma (Parasitiformes: Ixodidae) in Brazil, with morphological description and redescription of the larval stage of 30 Amblyomma species

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
Ticks of the genus Amblyomma are of great medical and veterinary importance in Brazil, where they regularly parasitize wild and domestic animals and will bite humans that enter rural and forest areas for work and recreation purposes.
Thiago F. Martins, Adriano Pinter, Vera L.F. de Camargo-Neves, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Pablo H. Nunes, Fábio Barbieri, Kátia M. Famadas, Marcelo B. Labruna   +7 more
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Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on wild raptors in Brazil

International Journal of Acarology, 2020
This research reports ticks on wild raptors in Brazil. Between the years 1936 and 2019, 127 larvae, 230 nymphs and 34 adult ticks were collected on 92 raptors (among 27 different species) from 35 localities in distinct Brazilian biomes.
R. F. Teixeira, H. R. Luz, R. Pacheco, V. Onofrio, M. Amorim, G. Gazêta, P. D. J. da Silva, K. Bitencourth, S. Marques, Marco O. Mattos Jr, Leandra S. I. Hernandes, L. Milanelo, Haroldo Furuya, V. P. da Silva, B. Petri, L. S. Fitorra, F. T. Das Dores, T. Sanches, T. Zwarg, A. Joppert, Pedro E. Navas-Soares, R. Fagundes-Moreira, J. Soares, A. L. D. da Costa, G. G. Galassi, M. A. Spina, M. C. Horta, J. L. Faccini, M. Labruna, T. F. Martins   +29 more
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