ABSTRACT In January 2001, while conducting a survey of the tick fauna of the State of Rondĵnia, Brazil, a rural area within Monte Negro county was visited. On one farm within the county the producer maintained a herd of crossbred swine, Sus scrofa L., that was reared under unconfined conditions, with unrestrained access to the pasture and adjacent native Amazon equatorial forest. Inspection of ...

altogether, 132 rodents of 4 species of meriones persicus , cricetulus migratorius, mus muscri~ius and allactaga dater were collected with live traps from different parts of meshkin - shahr district from summer 1373 to autumn 1374. the purpose of this survey was to identify the parasitic fauna of rodents. before dissection, the mammals were measured for biometric purposes. babesia microti , see...

The growing resistance of ticks to synthetic pyrethroids is a serious global problem that motivating researchers identify new biomolecules with broad acaricidal activity. Plants and their derivatives are often used in traditional medicine. This the purpose present study which focused on comparative effect an ointment based cashew balsam inothrin 5% Borgou cattle. During study, were collected th...

—Parasites have been identified as potential threats to mammalian carnivores, particularly insular species. We evaluated external parasites on island spotted skunks (Spilogale gracilis amphiala), a threatened insular endemic carnivore on Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands of the California Channel Islands (USA). We identified fleas (Pulex irritans, Nosopsyllus fasciatus), lice (Neotrichodectes m...

AIM The red jungle fowl is generally considered as one of the endangered Asian wild Galleopheasants due to man-made encroachment of their habitats, coupled with the effect of disease and disease causing organisms like ticks and tick-borne infections. This study aimed to determine the tick fauna of the red jungle fowl and their predilection sites based on developmental stages. MATERIALS AND ME...

In May 1999, field surveys of Lyme disease spirochetes were conducted around the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern People's Republic of China. Ixodes persulcatus ticks were obtained in a Tianchi Lake valley with primary forest, while the tick fauna was poor in the semidesert or at higher altitudes in this region. Species identities were confirmed by molecula...

Abstract Background Ticks and tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) represent a significant economic burden to cattle farming in sub-Saharan Africa including Nigeria. However, the northern part of this country, where largest livestock population resides, little is known about contemporary diversity ticks TBPs. This area particularly vulnerable climate change, undergoing marked transformation habitat asso...

5. Alzahrani AG, Al Shaiban HM, AlMazroa MA, Al-Hayani O, MacNeil A, Rollin PE, et al. Epidemiologic characteristics of Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever in humans in Najran City, Saudi Arabia. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010;16:1882–8. 6. Hoogstraal H, Wassef HY, Buttiker W. Ticks (Acarina) of Saudi Arabia family Argasidae, Ixodidae. In: Wittmer W, Buttiker W, editors. Fauna of Saudi Arabia. Vol. 3. Basel: Ci...