Ticks and Tick-borne DiseasesIn several urban and peri‑urban areas of Brazil, populations of Amblyomma sculptum and Amblyomma dubitatum ticks are maintained by capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris).
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Detection of Rickettsia spp. in Animals and Ticks in Midwestern Brazil, Where Human Cases of Rickettsiosis Were Reported [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) is the most important tick-borne diseases affecting humans in Brazil. Cases of BSF have recently been reported in the Goiás state, midwestern Brazil.
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Rickettsial Infection in Ticks from a National Park in the Cerrado Biome, Midwestern Brazil [PDF]
Pathogens, 2023 This study was carried out from February 2020 to September 2021 in Parque Nacional das Emas (PNE), a national park located in the Cerrado biome, midwestern Brazil, as well as in surrounding rural properties.
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Diferenciação morfométrica entre larvas de Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 e Amblyomma dubitatum Neumann, 1899 [PDF]
Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2018 RESUMO Os carrapatos estão envolvidos em processos biológicos de uma grande variedade de organismos patogênicos. O gênero Amblyomma é o de maior importância médica, com a espécie Amblyomma sculptum Berlese, 1888 envolvida no ciclo de transmissão da febre
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Capybara density and climatic factors as modulators of Ehrlichia prevalence in questing ticks in the Iberá wetlands, Argentina [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 We evaluated the presence of Ehrlichia spp. in unfed capybara ticks, Amblyomma dubitatum, and explored its association with capybaras density, ticks density and environmental variables. We observed that in the Iberá wetlands ecoregion A.
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Ticks on wild vertebrates necropsied in a veterinary pathology service in central Brazil: species richness and pathogen screening [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia VeterináriaDuring 2022-2024, fresh carcasses of 35 wild animals from Goiás state and the Federal District, both in central Brazil, were sent to the veterinary pathology service of the University of Brasília.
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Automated identification of spotted-fever tick vectors using convolutional neural networks. [PDF]
Med Vet EntomolWe evaluate the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNN) AlexNet, ResNet‐50 and MobileNetV2 for the automated identification of tick species capable of transmitting spotted fever. CNNs achieved accuracy rates of ~90% in identifying ticks and showed sensitivities of 59%–100% according to species, sex, position or image resolution.
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2009 Foi pesquisada a presença de riquétsias em 3.545 carrapatos Amblyomma cajennense e 2.666 Amblyomma dubitatum. Através do teste de hemolinfa, reação em cadeia pela polimerase e isolamento de rickettsia em cultivo celular, todos os Amblyomma cajennense ...
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Detection of an Undescribed Babesia sp. in Capybaras and Amblyomma Ticks in Central-Western Brazil [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) are the largest rodents on Earth. While capybaras are hosts for various tick species, there is limited information regarding the tick-borne pathogens they can carry.
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FAVE Sección Ciencias Veterinarias, 2016 In October 2015, a tick nymph was collected from a male Procyon cancrivorus found dead at the roadside of the National Road 119 near Mercedes city, Corrientes province, Argentina.
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